The first month of 2026 saw Trump trying to assert his ‘Donroe Doctrine’, blustering his way from Venezuela to Greenland. But the President is rapidly coming up against the limits of US imperialism – realising that redividing the world is not so easy as a game of Risk.

Jesse Welles, an American folk singer from Arkansas USA has captured the burning mood brimming within American society. Welles has tapped into an anti-establishment and anti-war feeling which has invoked an emotive response from many.

A massacre of Rojava and the Kurds is being prepared in Syria. US imperialism once used the Kurdish SDF (Syrian Defence Forces) as a cynical pawn. Now, Donald Trump is abandoning them to their fate. Imperialism and class collaborationism is again proving to be the gravedigger of the Kurdish cause.