Ciò che gli Stati Uniti stanno facendo all’Ucraina è molto peggio di Yalta

Unfortunately the U.S. is currently in the grips of internal political weirdness and what looks like a drift into dysfunctional government and authoritarianism. It isn’t self correcting and the external projection of that is international relations chaos.

Whether this administration is just an aberration and we’ll eventually see a return to something approximating normality remains to be seen. It’s quite possible this is the just how the US is going to be in this era – unpredictable, chaotic, mercantile and transactional.

It’s a very dramatic shift though and it’s mostly just one man and his immediate group of supporters. What’s shocked me is how total the shift has been, how quickly it happened and how the U.S. system hasn’t withstood it – the US federal government has been completely altered and much of it dismantled in the space of less that a year.

It’s not just about European military independence or spending either – yes, there are issues to be addressed, but not by causing a crisis at an incredibly high risk moment, and a lot of the noise is political spin to provide domestic cover an ideology of undermining the EU and NATO. The structures have been suddenly dismantled and there’s an underlying agenda about disrupting all of the status quo positions both domestically and in international relations.

We’re in a very strange situation and the ability to respond to it is quite limited – long lead times and complex interdependencies that can’t just be completely replaced in months.

Bold of you to assume the Trump admin pays any attention to history besides their bank statements