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.
What would be needed is codification of the assumed “norms”. That was the problem in Weimar, and that’s the problem in the USA today: too many things were just “customs” and “norms of behaviour” without any actual legal teeth.
Maybe the US government can spend a decade or ten figuring out how to control themselves instead of controlling, say, what women do with their bodies. Or what people in general put into their bodies, for that matter. A whole lot of energy has been devoted to controlling women’s biology. Maybe that energy could be redirected to controlling lawmakers’ base instincts.
Oh. And cut the crap with “corporations are people”. Or keep that crap, but extend it to jailing corporations and even executing them.
yes this is exactly the type of things we need or we will not completely crawl out of this.