Letters to The Editor — January 9, 2026

Trump and his actions

U.S. President Donald Trump’s classifications of overseas relations autumn into ‘Very Happy’, ‘Very Unhappy’ and ‘Others’. National leaders of the archetypal class are escorted with large ceremonial to beryllium his guests successful the U.S. for arsenic agelong arsenic helium wants. They attain their nirvana. Those successful the past class are his playmates successful games specified arsenic fell and question oregon boxing practice. Here lone Ukraine’s Zelenskyy finds himself successful switched classifications and neither helium nor Mr. Trump is wide connected this, portion the remainder look to beryllium enjoying it each till it lasts. It is those successful Mr. Trump’s ‘Very Unhappy’ radical who find themselves escaped of the passing fancies of a President who is yet to larn separating concern from pastime. It enables them to spell astir their ain concern and, successful the process, timepiece enviable GDP.

R. Narayanan,

Navi Mumbai

The actions by the United States nether President Trump are wholly against planetary instrumentality and the United Nations charter. Mr. Trump’s ‘claim’ implicit Greenland exposes the ‘Hitler successful Trump’. One wonders what much lies up successful his unusual expansionist plans. It is clip that like-minded nations joined hands, and nether the auspices of the UN, to extremity the evil designs of America.

S.V. Venkatakrishnan,

Singapore