There's an old saying, 'Good fences make good neighbours' which basically means take care of what is on your side of the fence and recognise where the physical and psychological boundaries or borders lie between you and your neighbours.
There is a place called Wall in the film Stardust which is in my DVD collection and which I like to watch on a fairly regular basis. It's a nice movie, ideal for a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. I might even watch it this week as I've a few days holidays to take. So, sometimes 'wall' can be a good thing and borders too, especially when they are filled with flowers. Even fences, when they are well built, the US is built on the ideal of the 'white picket fence' in the neighbourhood.
Trump is still looking to build his wall between the US and Mexico and threatening to shut the government down again if he doesn't get the funding from Congress. I for one,am quite happy for Donald to build his wall...but with one condition. He keeps the US military on their side of it and I mean all their military.
Now that they have decided to pull out of the INF nuclear proliferation treaty, there is a real possibility of the US deploying their nuclear bombs in Europe as a defence against 'threats' from Russia.
Every time I hear about the US and their nukes, I go back about 3 years ago, to the morning I was listening to Radio 4 and there was a general on talking about the plan to go to war with Russia within 3 years because they had these new limited nuclear bombs which they wanted to try out. I have mentioned this before on the blog. John Humphries was interviewing him and basically said, 'that's insane!'. But the election of Trump threw a bit of a spanner in the works, Hilary was supposed to get in which is why Obama had started to build up the anti-Russian rhetoric towards the end of his tenure in anticipation of the coming conflict.
Unfortunately, it seems that Trump has now been leveraged by or sold his soul to the Halliburton's and the other corporate hawks (assuming, of course, that he had one to begin with!.) From here on in, there will be more and more anti-Putin and anti-Russian propaganda in the mainstream media. Don't believe a word of if although, tensions have certainly increased now that Russia has decided to withdraw too.
Those who make war, don't fight them. They profit by them at the expense and with the blood of ordinary, usually poor and/or working class. For everyone's sake, don't let your children or your neighbours children be sacrificed for corporate profits!