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This, lest we forget there is one, is the very good side of the Trump administration, attacking censorship (except when it is criticism of Israel that's being censored) and the Anglo-European deep state. This is one Sarah B. Rogers, US Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy (oh joy). She is stirring it, now known as trolling, and more power to her elbow. Censorship is now part of British and European values, like many very bad things. The British threat to ban X is totally about politics and fear of Musk's laissez faire attitude, not at all about children.

Glenn Diesen

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Steinmeier argues that the world order has denigrated into a “den of robbers.” But what has really changed is that the US is decoupling from Europe. Under the collective hegemony of the Political West after the Cold War, Europeans participated in the illegal attack on Yugoslavia, the illegal secession of Kosovo, and some participated in the invasion of Iraq; then came Libya, Syria, and Yemen. They joined the coup and started the proxy war in Ukraine, applauded the strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, backed the Gaza genocide, and only last week EU leaders gave their approval for the attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president. The EU interferes in elections, hijacks civil society with “NGOs,” cancels election results, criminalizes the political opposition, and sanctions its own citizens. The US then turns its sights on Greenland, and suddenly the rule of law is over? The only thing that changed was the end of collective hegemony, and Europe now finds itself on the outside. What should Europe do? Start rebuilding international law or beg the US to let them back in and attempt to restore hegemonic rule again?

When I first saw this meme years ago I wasn't especially impressed but I think it's spot on now. I imagine most people across the world do.