"Change has come"
The Young Man rings in the new era. The Old Man concedes honorably, The Hunter is a promised future menace. In amongst the flashing cameras, bullet proof glass and smiling family shots, Russia reiterates its commitment to seeing the American missile defence grid being dismantled and moved away from its borders. A cunning move by a power that knows how to play by the big players rules. Don't mistake this for some school boy manoeuvre. The Bear will continue to growl, and as America bleeds through its credit, Afghan and Iraq wounds The Young Man's job is going to be (as any half blind pundit can see) very tough indeed.
The hope is, of course, that through the change of administration, through his richly mixed background and vaguely socialistic views he could unite in the way that his predecessor fractured. As the Euro rides the storm and every big scale crisis brings the superstate closer it's important that America does not feel isolated. For now, that future seems less likely.
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