Europe and Canada need to move carefully to avoid creating further dangers, but they need to decouple from the US in areas like defence planning, intelligence sharing, and defence procurement.

The NATO Treaty commits members to the principle that “an armed attack against one [member] shall be considered an attack against them all”, but the White House spent 2025 threatening to invade two NATO other members.

At lower levels the old relationships may still be functioning despite this, but the policymakers in what used to be the West’s leader are deeply and immovably hostile to Europe (and to traditional US foreign policy values).

It reminds me of a comedian some years ago who did an "old movies be like" skit but all of the gags were impressions of SNL impressions of old time stars and you could tell they had never seen an old movie themselves, so the skit flopped hard.

Same deal.

Not that Bluesky is perfect, but the bubble complainers were generally just annoyed that either their horrible friends weren't getting the white glove treatment... or *they* weren't being sufficiently revered here.

They never complain about actual issues here.

The President of the United States is a horrible person and everyone knows it and knew it when we voted. I will never understand it, and no, I will not get over it