Colin Sheridan: Little sympathy for our reliance on the US dollar

By virtue of our decades-long subservience, we have become utterly beholden to America

US President Joe Biden. It's far from hyperbole to suggest both Biden and Kamala Harris may yet be pursued for war crimes. Picture: AP Photo/Ben Curtis

"The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” — Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanzania.

Jimmy Kimmel was in tears. Social media was in meltdown. Barack Obama was in hiding. Donald Trump's victory this week seemed to be confusing for a great many people, but, honestly, I was confused as to what was confusing them. It couldn’t have been the ‘why,’ surely? No, we have tens of thousands of reasons why the Democrats lost that election, most of them lying dead in the Middle East.