It is July the 10th.

117 days remain until the U.S. presidential elections, 40 days and 40 nights,

until the convening of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

This is the warning, and Joe Biden's campaign is struggling.

Donald Trump appeared at his golf club in Dural, and he spoke to the masses, those teeming,

yearning souls cheering for more MAGA, more Donald, more insanity. Donald Trump didn't

disappoint. He challenged, of course, Joe Biden to another debate,

but also to a round of golf. He said, to not incorrectly, that it would get better ratings than the

Ryder Cup, even the Masters. He's probably not wrong, though I suspect President Biden is unlikely to accept the offer,

as the world tilts ever more closely to a third World War.

Let's look at some of the images from around the world.

Here is Modi in India hugging Vladimir Putin. The Saudis have issued a threat

of sorts. They've made clear to the G7 countries that offloading Russia's trapped assets to Ukraine

isn't an option. All around the world, the world order that came to be in the aftermath of

the Second World War, humanity's most significant event is collapsing. In Washington, D.C.,

the NATO leaders, the members of the most powerful military alliance in world history,

are gathered, talking about our collective security. This alliance has come to be at the

heart of the choice of the campaign in 2024. Donald Trump hates it. He's against it. He believes that a collective of the most

technologically advanced military and scientific powers on Earth somehow make us weaker.

That's because he's stupid, but that's been evident for a really long time.

And so it is this week in Washington that President Biden leads the NATO summit,

with a great question hanging in the air.

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