Interesting report from the world of diplomacy and military alliance.
The headline quotation is a direct quotation of a non-American senior official to the Americans at the meeting.
80 years of effort to build up a world of shared values burned in under a year. 80 years of soft power tossed in the compost pile and recycled into fertilizer. 80 years of blood, sweat, and tears as Americans laboured to make the world safe for America.
All gone in the tantrums of a decrepit toddler.
Indeed, USA: We genuinely will never fucking trust you again.
In comes the AI bubble with the folding steel chair.
Don’t forget bird flu. It’s airbone now between farms in the US, and it’s still infecting people in a steady trickle of individual cases, often killing them.
In retrospect, when it does figure out how to spread human-to-human and our now gutted public health system has no answer but letting it rampage through like in the middle ages, it’ll seem a little weird that it hesitated for so long before getting going.