@randahl It should not be forgotten. That this has happened so quickly and with no real resistance from the US political sphere shows the US government is not trustworthy and any pretence to 'special relationships' is a farce.
Their own constitution is not worth the paper it is written on.

We have to operate on those principles.

@Mutedog It's fasciation.

You can prune it out in the summer if you don't like the way it looks.