World War III came and went!

After a week of total drama, with the US, Britain and France all set for a war with Syria, Russia, Iran - World War III perhaps round the corner - it's remarkable how the news business has now settled down so quickly. Russia blinked and let Trump get on with his bombing. The chemical weapons people will go to Douma and might find something that smells of clorine or sarin but they can't say where it came from. Same situation as the Novichok poisoning in Salisbury. No forensic conclusions, just total belief in most intelligent people's minds that Syria did the chemical bombing and Russia did the Novichok poisoning. But "belief" is not good enough in a court of law. So, as a result, the attacks on Syria are already so yesterday! Now it's about the mood music for the upcoming summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un, a former US Navy jet fghter pilot - also a woman which makes it even better (sorry for that but it just happens to be true) saves a passenger plane from a disastrous crash by some cool flying, Cuba has had its last Castro in charge and the King of Swaziland has renamed his country eSwatini. I've been to Swaziland, it's a great country with fabulous people, amazing mountains, and welcoming grass-skirted dance troupes like you've never seen before (bettered only by the extraordnary leaping up, staying up and eventually coming down tall skinny red-coloured Masai warriors of Kenya). So if the King of Swaziland, one Mswati III, wants to change the name of his nation it's fine by me, although a little disappointing, since Swaziland sounds a helluva lot better than eSwatini. But each to his own. The world really is a bizarre place right now. Terrible things can happen and then everyone suspected of being involved lies about it till normally sane people start to wonder what the truth is. This is why lying is so clever. If lies are repeated over and over again, it almost doesn't matter what the truth is because everyone gets totally bored and moves on to other stories, like renaming countries. Trump even now is probably wondering whether the constitution will allow him to rename the United States of America, eDonald.