Cocaine, Ukraine and the French
The French have found it necessary to deny that Monsieur Macron and his British and German buddies Starmer and Merz snorted cocaine on their way from Ukraine by train.
Russia pointed to what it claimed was a little white bag of coke when the three were settling in on the train. With Putin’s drones zooming about, you don’t fly to and from Kyiv.
Kremlin officials said a film clip of the group appears to show Macron slipping the baggie into his pocket.
Nonsense, the Elysee Palace cried. The white object was “a tissue for blowing your nose,” the French said. You wouldn’t want Macron’s sniffy, soiled hankie between you on the table, would you?
Cocaine diplomacy. How to wind up the West
According to Maria Zhakarova, the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson, the Ukraine allies “got on a train and did a line.”
“They were so out of it they forgot to hide the paraphernalia, a small bag and a spoon.” Herr Merz, the new German chancellor, had handled the spoon, she said.
The rather attractive Zhakarova has been to Harare accompanying foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on his visits.
It had been left to Zhakarova to claim Zelensky and other European leaders are cocaine users in what the French say is a disinformation campaign to further sour relations between Europe and Donald Trump, a longtime teetotaller.
But Trump, in fact, by his own admission, is a “candy addict,” according to White House insiders. Wherever he goes, when he’s not impersonating the pope on his official social media handle, there are baskets and bowls of sweet things, many of them not familiar to non-Americans. He’ll offer his visitors Tootsie Rolls, Reece’s, Life Savers, M&Ms, Starbursts, Hershey’s, Mars bars and Milky Ways that he chomps his way through every day.
One top Republican, at a meeting in the Oval Office, tells of how Tump was digging into “a big candy basket.”
“He threw me two Tootsie Rolls, flipped them right across the desk,” he told reporters.
Yes, Trump does like coke – Diet Coke, that is. He has installed what the Americans call a valet or soda button on his desk to be pressed when he wants Diet Coke, which is often.
He has quipped that some newcomers to the Oval Office have thought of it (pictured right, complete with the presidential seal) as a nuclear button. “Some people do get a little nervous when I press that button,” he says.
It has always intrigued me that diners in restaurants, especially Americans, guzzle cheesecake, chocolate ice cream and high-calorie and sugary dishes and then order Diet Coke when the wine waiter comes along.
In Red Square, war-monger Putin has been celebrating the end of World War II in Europe and the defeat of Nazism. The veteran officer beside him surely didn’t get any of those medals for fitness and having a flat military stomach.
Who’s the craziest of them all?
On a scale of 1-10 for their: a) Integrity.b) Violence. c) Justice. d) Freedom of expression.e) Free press. f) Human rights. g) Migration. h) Executions. i) Humour.
