5/17: Didn’t Trump say that "the exporting country will pay the tariffs"? Then why is he worried about Walmart. "President Trump scolded Walmart on Saturday after the retail giant warned that his tariffs would force it to raise prices, writing on social media that the discount chain could afford to absorb the costs of the new import taxes without passing them on to customers."

5/17: In pre-Ukraine war Russia, a Russian journalist was assassinated just after posting this: "Russia’s biggest problem, Politkovskaya wrote, was “the fact that most people think it will never happen to them”. Watching the film and looking back on those years, I suspect something similar applies to the West. Its leaders knew what Mr Putin was up to, but few saw, or wanted to see, that he would eventually convulse their worlds, too."