Here are comments      I just posted on the Washington Post website on its  editorial, How to avert a U.S.-Europe breakup -- As the transatlantic alliance becomes   transactional, Trump’s tough love is no reason to get in bed with China:   

"The Post's Editorial Board is once again cozying up to Trump by ignoring realpolitik. The piece calls on Europeans to rally around a common enemy. Tragically but realistically NATO and ordinary Europeans recognize that the common enemy is the Trump-Putin axis. It is ludicrous to expect that Trump's demands insist that NATO members pay their "fair share," as he is dealing and wheeling with Putin over Ukraine and providing aid and comfort to fascist parties across the continent, to be seen as anything less than reprehensible. The guy is neither an honest broker nor trustworthy. Europe's outreach to China is problematic, but no less so the Post's naïve critique of it." 

Democracy dies in deception and in the news media being controlled by billionaires like Bezos, who are willing to do anything to curry this Regime's favor.