Helter Skelter: Mexico, Iran, Australia, Yemen

[Dill]

No way to keep up with today's events--mosque burned, MLK speech, end of gun-free school zones, resolution to nullify Stream Protection Rule, Dodd Frank dismantling begins--here I will only focus on Trump's foreign policy moves. (On the positive side the protests expand--thousands turn out to support Muslims in Texas.)

1. Trump threatened to send US troops into Mexico to take care of "bad hombres" during phone call to Mexican President.  http://time.com/4657474/donald-trump-enrique-pena-nieto-mexico-bad-hombres/

2. Let's undermine the Iran Treaty and regional stability now. Flynn puts Iran "on Notice."
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-administration-begins-threat-inflation-iran

3. A senior administration official acknowledged that the conversation with Turnbull had been hostile and charged. . . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-gday-mate-on-call-with-australian-pm-trump-badgers-and-brags/2017/02/01/88a3bfb0-e8bf-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.f68ad8b7eef3

4. Special Oops? Trump green lights first military action abroad. Seven children killed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/01/31/how-trumps-first-counter-terror-operation-in-yemen-turned-into-chaos/?utm_term=.e8aed6cc28cc. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/world/middleeast/yemen-raid-women-qaeda.html?_r=0. http://gothamist.com/2017/01/31/yemen_raid_trump_fatal.php.

I think there is no surprise that many are coming to view Angela Merkel as the next leader of the free world.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/angela-merkel-donald-trump-democracy-freedom-of-press-a7556986.html