No matter what is going on in Spain or around the world, it’s hard to not turn and look over one’s shoulder a couple of times each and every day at the terrifying antics of America’s leaders: Trump and his motley crew of whack-jobs.
Few of us here in Europe will identify themselves with his supporters. The left and centre certainly don’t, and Marine Le Pen, the French fascist leader, says she thinks he’s crazy. But of course, here in Spain we have Feijóo and Abascal, who appear to like anything that the Government doesn’t, and look for approval and support from wherever they can find it.
Venezuela has long been a topic for the right-wing in Spain. How not to run a country and so on – a short step for identifying the current Government here with the ghastly mess that comes from that unfortunate Latin American state, now under the firm control of the USA.
I think it started with the story – invented by the Spanish so-called ‘Patriotic Police’ – of how Podemos was financed by Caracas: a most successful smear which pretty much did for the party.
‘Right-wing Spanish politicians often bring up Venezuela to criticize the left for a mix of political strategy, symbolic comparison, and historical context. Indeed, analysts describe Venezuela as a sort of handy excuse for the Spanish right to attack any appropriate position on the left’ says Google.
Unfortunately – Trump decided, following his extraction of Nicolás Maduro – to leave the Chavista government in place rather than turning things over to the opposition (and the Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado). Who cares – he just wants the oil as he himself says. It also appears, to the dismay of Spanish conservatives, that Maduro’s membership of the fabled Cartel de los Soles was purely an American invention.
The PP and Vox, their noses rather out of joint, must now (with the rest of us) contemplate further possible Trumpian attacks on Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Greenland. Hell, maybe Canada too: most of this malarkey, mind, devised in the last ten days as The Donald apparently goes rogue. 
He’s only got until the mid-term elections next November (plus his ailing health) to lock everything into place.
All of this would mean the irreparable break-down of Nato.
Then there’s Iran – which come to think of it probably deserves a little tender American lovin’.
Back in Small Town USA, the same people who claim the woman killed in Minneapolis was a domestic terrorist are telling us that the people who stormed the Capitol are heroes. In fact, a Trumper friend writes and compares the killing to the shooting of a woman involved in the January 6th 2021 mob attack on the Capitol in Washington, following the Dear Leader’s complaint that the results of the 2020 election were rigged.
And thus we ‘live in interesting times’; and wonder guiltily how our children and grandchildren are going to manage in the next years and decades.
I think on balance, we oldies had it pretty good.