In the heat of the summer, the distant cold of the winter seems a smudged dream: hazy, and far off. Unlike a normal dream, it comes with the perfect assurance that the pallid cold will come regardless of how well one does or how many mistakes are made. The slowly arriving, but ever-impending winter may come with a gentle kiss of cool winds, or as a tyrannical father, it should punish all unending – but the winter will come.

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ran on a return to his "America First” foreign policy platform. The U.S., he said, could no longer afford to be the world's policeman. On his watch, he pledged, there would be no new wars.

Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States in November 2024, the German state-owned news service Deutsche Welle published an article with the headline “Trump’s election victory is a nightmare for Germany.”