The wheel turns. The NATO Secretary General returns.
- The wheel turns. The NATO Secretary General returns. Mark Rutte has been reborn. Not as a leader. Not as a diplomat. Not as the man who held the Netherlands together for thirteen years. As what he always was. An appendix. That useless organ nobody notices until it bursts and poisons everything. His new life suits him. He exists without purpose. He hangs around pretending to be essential. Doctors debate whether he should be removed. Most agree the body would function better without him. They called him Teflon Mark. Nothing stuck. Not the scandals. Not the childcare benefits disaster. Not the lies. He slid from Prime Minister to NATO chief like grease through a pipeline. Failing upward is an art form. He painted a masterpiece. Now he stands next to Trump with a black eye and calls it love. The man who ran Europe's fourth largest economy fetches coffee for a president who can't find the Netherlands on a map. He nods. He smiles. He takes the insults and asks for more. The appendix has no dignity. It doesn't fight back. It just sits there waiting to be useful and never quite arriving. Some men leave legacies. Some men leave behind nothing but a scar where something useless was removed. Welcome to your next life Mark. You earned it.
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All lettersWorthless and hopefully jobless!
