The monarch must do his best to wrest some diplomatic advantage from an ill-timed trip, which Donald Trump will treat as a personal tribute<\/p>\n
When King Charles\u2019s mother became the first British monarch to address<\/a> the United States Congress in 1991,\u00a0she spoke in the aftermath of the US-led response<\/a>\u00a0to Saddam Hussein\u2019s invasion of Kuwait, in which more than 50,000 UK troops participated. Queen Elizabeth II used the occasion to celebrate the\u00a0role of the transatlantic alliance in upholding the rule of international law: \u201cSome people believe that power grows out of the barrel of a gun,\u201d she told her Capitol Hill audience. \u201cSo it can, but history shows that\u00a0it never\u00a0grows well nor for very long.\u201d<\/p>\n Different monarch, different times and a very different America. As the king embarks<\/a> on a four\u2011day state visit to the United States, a foiled assault<\/a> by a gunman believed to be targeting members of the Trump administration illustrated the extent to which political violence has become endemic in a deeply polarised country. Globally, Donald Trump\u2019s illegal war\u00a0in Iran (and prior to that the abduction<\/a> by US special forces of Venezuela\u2019s president, Nicol\u00e1s\u00a0Maduro) underlines that in the view of the present White House, the possessors of military might\u00a0have the\u00a0right to set their own rules.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The monarch must do his best to wrest some diplomatic advantage from an ill-timed trip, which Donald Trump will treat as a personal tribute When King Charles\u2019s mother became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress in 1991,\u00a0she spoke in the aftermath of the US-led response\u00a0to Saddam Hussein\u2019s invasion of Kuwait, in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}