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.
A good read, if a little sparse and overly casual. What strikes me most was the “Thank god, somebody had to tell them” quip.
There must have been a thousand conversations between counterparts at all levels of government, business and military who have been over to the other’s house after work for beer and conversation and dropped that nugget of truth, let alone the countless op-eds, you tube videos, reddit posts and of course lemmy and the fediverse.
They know. Everybody knows.
The fact that Jeane Shaheen said what she did, speaks loudly to the fact that there is ZERO trust of the Trump Administration even within the US itself. Democrats v. Republicans aside. For the most part, the politicians DO get along while they are working… this is what is not understood by the public… so for any Senator to not deny a hard, ugly truth about what is hapening inside the Beltway is an indicator of just how bad an Administration really is. It’s a hold onto your beer, the water’s gonna be rough for a while moment. My hope is that younger Americans will vote in actual progressives as the older politicians leave. We don’t need idiots that think Autocracy is okay as long as it makes us look ‘tough’…