https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-america-betrayed-europe

It’s impossible to separate stupidity and madness from strategy in Trump/Musk land.

Here Noah Smith, who represents the relatively sane side of the technarchy, tries to construct a rationale for why the GOP and Trump should betray democracy and freedom across the world. Including one I think is contributing: “The U.S. has deemphasized manufacturing and let its defense-industrial base go to rot, leaving it incapable of matching even Russia’s rate of weapons production, let alone China’s.”