Iain Macwhirter: Hitching a ride on Trump’s missiles in a largely pointless military action

This is all our nightmares rolled into one. An irrational and unpredictable US President, compared to a Mafia boss by the former head of the FBI, is in a global stand off with a militaristic Russian President presiding over a Mafia state run by fractious oligarchs. Come back Dr Strangelove, all is forgiven. Trump and Putin are worst kind of leaders in the worst kind of crisis in the worst kind of civil war – one which has been described by the BBC’s Middle East correspondent as “a world war in miniature”. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16160196.Iain_Macwhirter__Hitching_a_ride_on_Trump___s_missiles_in_a_largely_pointless_military_action/?ref=rss