The BBC: "For three years, Donald Trump presided over a nation of relative peace and prosperity. The crises he faced were largely of his own making, and he confronted them by rallying his supporters and condemning his opponents.
Now Trump faces a situation ill-suited to a playbook of division. The US economy has been hobbled by a deadly pandemic. George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer has spread racial unrest across the nation. The public is uncertain and afraid - and increasingly angry."
These are circumstances that would test the abilities of even the most skilful leaders. This president, however, risks becoming lost at sea. His public calls for unity and healing have been undermined by a penchant for Twitter name-calling and bellicosity. Message discipline, a valuable attribute at this moment, is not his forte.
There may be no easy way to guide the nation through its current peril. Barack Obama's measured coolness did nothing to stop the fires of Ferguson any more than Richard Nixon's law-and-order edicts quelled Vietnam-era unrest.
The economic and social devastation of the pandemic has created a political landscape of dry brush ignited by the lightning strike of Floyd's death. The president may not be able to contain the wildfire, even if he isn't feeding the flames."
"Racial unrest across the nation." Like the way the BBC and the corporate media and most of the analysts (have) described the conflict and the war in Syria: sectarian conflict across the Middle East. In the current revolt in the U.S. socio-economic causes are mainly linked to the effects of the pandemic. Whereas in Syria and Iraq sect and religion have been highlighted as the major cause, focus on race in the U.S. has removed any reference to class.
Morever, the usual cliché of the use of the word violence is contrasted with the complete absence of such usage to refer to the structural violence manifested in the American prison system, poverty, inequality, racism, etc.
The wider picture is that the most powerfulnd richest imperialist state has been for long externalising domestic violence by waging wars and multinationals, selling instruments of death, dominating violent institutions, and employing other forms of violence across the globe, causing long term damage to humans and nature.