And Musk too. My question is will the US military, the Generals, do what he says, in clear defiance of international and democratic norms? And knowing, surely, that “winning” will result in in war of attrition on the ground and be a “just” cause for atrocities against US citizens.
Agree that Trump is serious about Panama, Greenland and Canada. While history may provide guidance, technology has changed alliances, conquest and warfare. Technology has entwined us and has made many of our economic, social and governance systems more fragile. Think of what happened during the COVID epidemic. Autocratic countries such as China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Hungary and now the US, control information to rewrite history, undertake hybrid warfare and stifle internal dissent. Remaining democracies need to ensure that their social, political and economic values are not poisoned by disinformation and propaganda from autocratic regimes. It may be time to shut the bullies who disdain human rights, fair play, transparency and science out of those multilateral organizations, with rules that the bullies choose to ignore. (These organizations include such as NATO, the UN, the WHO and the WTO, etc.) Disentangling from autocratic regimes and protecting our democracies may mean cutting off all economic, technological and military ties to limit the resources (financial , natural, technology and military) that these autocratic regimes will use to expand their power, spread disinformation, substandard products, corruption, pollution and disease outside of their borders. It is darned hard to seize territory or spew out pollution if the autocracies' economies grind to a standstill because of a lack or resources or customers or because businesses which prefer to operate outside of autocracies have migrated their businesses to democracies. By making these changes, democracies will be charting new territory. But remaining in the "car" with Trump and Musk driving, will give us all the autocratic virus and kill most of us by going over the climate change, pestilence or the "World be damned" cliff.
totally agree. The missing piece is that he’s Putin’s Manchurian candidate and nobody in the USA seems to be doing anything about it.
And Musk too. My question is will the US military, the Generals, do what he says, in clear defiance of international and democratic norms? And knowing, surely, that “winning” will result in in war of attrition on the ground and be a “just” cause for atrocities against US citizens.
Please read this everybody, it’s spine chilling.
Agree that Trump is serious about Panama, Greenland and Canada. While history may provide guidance, technology has changed alliances, conquest and warfare. Technology has entwined us and has made many of our economic, social and governance systems more fragile. Think of what happened during the COVID epidemic. Autocratic countries such as China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Hungary and now the US, control information to rewrite history, undertake hybrid warfare and stifle internal dissent. Remaining democracies need to ensure that their social, political and economic values are not poisoned by disinformation and propaganda from autocratic regimes. It may be time to shut the bullies who disdain human rights, fair play, transparency and science out of those multilateral organizations, with rules that the bullies choose to ignore. (These organizations include such as NATO, the UN, the WHO and the WTO, etc.) Disentangling from autocratic regimes and protecting our democracies may mean cutting off all economic, technological and military ties to limit the resources (financial , natural, technology and military) that these autocratic regimes will use to expand their power, spread disinformation, substandard products, corruption, pollution and disease outside of their borders. It is darned hard to seize territory or spew out pollution if the autocracies' economies grind to a standstill because of a lack or resources or customers or because businesses which prefer to operate outside of autocracies have migrated their businesses to democracies. By making these changes, democracies will be charting new territory. But remaining in the "car" with Trump and Musk driving, will give us all the autocratic virus and kill most of us by going over the climate change, pestilence or the "World be damned" cliff.