However much Trump might want a Curtis Yarvin style carve up, nothing concrete has actually been agreed. The Russians are stringing an increasingly paralysed US government along.
The bigger problem Europeans face is the likelihood that the US becomes incapable of doing anything at all
The bigger problem Europeans face is the likelihood that the US becomes incapable of doing anything at all
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Phil Syrpis
PS Been thinking about why the prevailing narrative is the way it is. 2 very strong reasons come to mind.
1. We (the UK, EU, etc) want to feel that what we are doing is relevant, and that it matters to Trump.
2. It feels good to be calling Trump a loser and an idiot.
(I fear both are wrong.)
1. We (the UK, EU, etc) want to feel that what we are doing is relevant, and that it matters to Trump.
2. It feels good to be calling Trump a loser and an idiot.
(I fear both are wrong.)
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Trump and Musk are torching the structural foundations of US global power needed to impose a "carve up"
https://bsky.app/profile/syrpis.bsky.social/post/3lkoeghlh7k2z
Europeans will have to get used to a world where for good or ill the Americans are gone.
This will be even worse ("hanification").
I admire the fact that the US has a written constitution (unlike the UK) but the ease and speed with which Trump is dismantling it is shocking.
Which is, of course, why Putin, being the street rat he is, did it: to show to the world that Trump and Musk have made the USA a state that can be openly and safely mocked.
When you can be openly mocked like this, you are no hegemon because your adversary simply doesn’t think you can or will do anything against any insult.
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lkpylshjus2b
The faster America deletes itself, and it will, the better.
not my preference, of course, but ...
check internet archive for how difficult it was for Arkansas to be readmitted to the "Union ..."
... o gosh , it's the cheese wheel of Jackson's inaugural.
But some is needed for Americans to visualize the consequences of letting a nutcase run their government.
This winter in Europe, hanging out in Berlin, Stockholm, and even Zermatt, Europeans I have talked to (a biased sample, probably) see Russia as an unending menace at ths point.
No menace
Handleable menace
Unending menace <--- here
Endable menace
Ended menace
I liked the rules-based order but, sure, if they insist on breaking it apart we have to deal with it.
We are going to have to get bloody used to making shit up as we go along, with no blueprints, roadmaps or places to stand, on every front
forever
They’re easily distracted by things like the JFK files, but they see the writing on the wall. And they don’t want to speak it, lest it accelerate it.
While worded as a security guarantee it is also speaking rather plainly about a NATO substitute...
2/2
Even Meloni has ...1/
42(7) was used by France and it went well
Our country can’t do this thing where we switch back and forth between milquetoast politics and political insanity once or twice a decade. Our allies will stop standing by us, and our enemies will be emboldened to plot against us.
But, seems to be working out well for China and Russia.
It can only ever be about *him* and his desire to have control and influence over events - even if he’s completely being played.