Donald trump and indeed the consensus america that america had to stand up to china and curtail this power in the pacific. it is quite clear that we are back, as it were, to a situation we had in cold war where russia is the main adversary to the us and we have two deal with it accordingly and we have to be resolved to do that and that is absolutely essential and it will be for the long haul. i hope that moldova doesjoin nato. i hope finland and swedenjoin nato as well. i think that would be essential and we shouldn t be bullied by the russian. we should believe that we have to hold back. we learned in the british press that our ministry of defence wanted to arm the ukrainians from sotho 2014 onwards i was prevented from doing so at the risk of provoking the russians. there is no point in appeasing the russians any more. qm.