and even if the Europeans don't fight (or put up only symbolic resistance), the risks of tectonic-shifting knock-on effects would be enormous: what happens to US bases & troops in Europe? would US citizens have the right to travel to the EU? would the financial systems decouple? what about trade?

INDOPACOM century of humiliation continues

okay i may have had an excessive impression of how dramatic pmarca was before finding it, but, uh, still, no, this is basically a confession given context and hindsight rn