Nothing Special

10 per cent is the lowest of the Trump Tariffs, so Britain, Australia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates turn out to be no more special than Trinidad and Tobago to the United States, nor Javier Milei's Argentina and Nayib Bukele's El Salvador any more special than that to Donald Trump.

Israel has been subjected to a striking 17 per cent. Jordan to 20 per cent. One of America's East Asian military colonies, Japan, to 24 per cent. The other, South Korea, to 25 per cent. Taiwan, officially the front line of the free world, to 32 per cent, only two lower than China.

And the 20 per cent on the European Union covers countries supposedly as dear to American hearts as Italy and Ireland, plus Atlanticist stalwarts as staunch as Germany, Poland and the Netherlands, together with the purported Hungarian twin pole of the international movement that manifested itself as MAGA.