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NOW: King Charles III prepares to depart the U.S. after a historic four-day state visit.

🚨 WOW! President Trump reveals he PERSONALLY funded the new black granite pathway at the White House to be completed before King Charles III's visit "In fact, if you can, let [the press] leave through that door, it's just completed. We had it completed for King Charles, on time, on budget, I paid for it, so you know, it's very expensive. I want to tell you!" Q: "Does he love this?" TRUMP: "He LOVED IT!" REPORTER: "This is a Trump Renaissance." TRUMP: "Well, we're fixing the White House!"

Americans love banging on about the War of Independence. They’re quieter on the War of 1812. Here’s why. In 1812, America declared war on Britain. The plan was to march into Canada and annex it. Thomas Jefferson said it would be “a mere matter of marching.” It wasn’t. The Canadians sent them packing. Two years later, the British sailed up the Potomac. American forces collapsed at Bladensburg in what’s still called “the Bladensburg Races” because of how fast they ran. President Madison had already fled to Maryland. The British walked into Washington unopposed. They sat down in the White House, ate the dinner Dolley Madison had laid out for forty guests, used the President’s silver, then set fire to the building. Then they burned the Capitol, the Treasury and the Navy Yard. A freak thunderstorm put the fires out the next day. The British left when they were ready. It’s still the only time a foreign army has captured the US capital. You can see why it doesn’t come up much.

Bear in mind Europe really doesn’t believe in rights except as granted by legal documents. It’s the polar opposite of the Anglospheric model (or at least the 18C liberal one the US inherited and the others sometimes pay homage to). But it’s an organic outgrowth of the development of European states, which was more top-down than bottom-up.

The Russian accounts are putting in extra shifts of shovelling coal to try and drive a wedge between us 🇬🇧🇺🇸

I’m not the only one warning about this.

> Become First Indian origin African born Mayor of NYC > Immediately asks for colonial loot to be returned to its rightful owners Very Based