Things like requesting for emotional value in a serious conversation is such an unsophisticated tactic in arguments, just hard to believe it’s planned by a long time blogger and book writer who should be good at words.

I think this gives this office too much credits.

The whole thing seems more spontaneous dysfunction than planned, Vance overplaying his troll role, and Rubio did not show up for job.

This is obviously aligned with their long term vision regardless, but I don’t think they were planning to hit the gas at that day.

Make a dent on us corp earning report, stock market is actually one of few sources Trump might listen.

The desire for keeping “good old times” of pax-America are exactly what Trump is leveraging to extract more juice out of Europe and others.

Time to get out of this abusive relationship, and face the challenges in real life.

not so much for America

Not necessarily, a more equal world and no-longer-exceptional America would give more common people an opportunity to better see the weakness in the political and redistribution system, and creating opportunities for fundamental change. That can be a painful process but for the long term good.

The waning influence of America is a positive development in the long run. Hopefully, they can find a solution to address the short-term challenges.

They can sign a 50 year deal and stop payment 10 years from now, hopefully thing change for better then.

Agree. I think just like a lot of open ended things happened before, it can be one off, or can be a beginning for a new era. There’s no reason to conclude, but all reason to worry (if you don’t like monarch)

Across the globe, except in China. He’s only brave enough to speak up in counties with free speech apparently.

Unfortunately deal like this, not necessarily in this exact terms, is probably inevitable, and everyone except normal Ukraine people will have some incentive to keep the war going…