What’s going on in the United States with Musk and Trump? It is often difficult to figure out what’s going on with Trump at the helm. He is so unpredictable. His erstwhile best friend, Mr Musk, has now deserted him and is very critical of him. Musk who was once his ‘big buddy’ now seems to think that Trump is too soft on China and Iran.

    Here’s what I think. Musk and a sizeable number of the  Republican club of Billionaires –especially those in the Military-Industrial complex -are plotting to get rid of ‘the Donald’ and replace him with ‘the Vance’. They believe that Vice President JD Vance would be more willing to follow their instructions. They would like to try out some of their large arsenal of nuclear weapons as a warning to China, India and Russia.  I believe that with the help of Netanyahu and the Zionists, they would be willing to launch a nuclear attack on Iran. They would justify this crazy action by accusing Iran of supporting Hamas and of building a nuclear arsenal for their own strategic purposes.

     This hardly bears thinking about. There would be no winners in a nuclear war -only death and destruction on a scale never seen before in human history. Such is the possible outcome of the split between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. All those in favour a peaceful way forward and ending the production of nuclear weapons need to be alert to the great danger we are all facing. 

     If ever we needed a strong and prophetic Church leader it is now. We need Pope Leo XIV to focus on building a peaceful world, on an end to nuclear weapons, and on a strong show of solidarity with the poor and oppressed in Gaza and elsewhere in the world.  I think that Pope Leo needs to send a strong message to JD Vance that being a Catholic is incompatible with waging war of any kind. Catholicism is supposed to be about peace-making. 

I do not like to be alarmist- but as I see it we are living in very dangerous times.