2BOB

Today, I was in my office in the central business district of Melbourne. A colleague was sitting next to me, distracted from her work. She was surfing the Internet and researching the vote count of the American presidential election. Without breaking her attention from the screen, she tells me, 'They're saying there's a 95% likelihood of Trump winning'. I exclaimed, 'Good God, really?'. We hardly had a chance to discuss the ramifications his election would have for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan when a storm broke out over Melbourne. A sharp clap of thunder cracked right over head, with flashes of lightning out the window. My colleagues and I all stood up from our desks and looked out onto our city. The rain poured down the glass and I joked, 'The gods are angry'.  A couple of weeks earlier, I was chatting with a different colleague. I was venting my anxiety about what I considered a near certain victory for Trump. In particular, I was concerned about his is...