I'm 40, about to turn 41. If you'd asked me over the past two decades what the worst political decision/crisis of my lifetime was, I'd have said, without hesitation, the invasion of Iraq.
Until now.
Now, it's the (mis)handling of the coronavirus. Without a shadow of a doubt.
Until now.
Now, it's the (mis)handling of the coronavirus. Without a shadow of a doubt.
I never thought I'd see world leaders top the extreme combination of horrific lies, blunders, delusions, mistakes, crimes etc of Bush/Cheney/Blair/Aznar/Howard on Iraq.
But Trump/Johnson/Bolsonaro et al seem to have managed it.
But Trump/Johnson/Bolsonaro et al seem to have managed it.
(And btw, I'm obviously not talking about the Iraq war itself, which had its own specific crimes and monstrous Iraqi death toll. I'm talking about the global political decision-making which led to the invasion vs the global political decison-making on the coronavirus now.)
