For decades the US has been systematically trying to curb global corruption, but the corrupter has eliminated many of the programs that contributed to the campaign. It looks like the US government has flipped to the pro-corruption side.

Vance distorted edge-cases of European laws to attack crucial human rights, and to promote his allies in Europe — European far-right extremists-Nazis — and encourage them to seize repressive power there as the Trusk regime is doing in the US.

European anti-Nazis need to be bold, not hesitate and rely on measures that aim only to oppose them.

Since the US appreciates Putin more than Europe, and is as likely to behave like Europe's enemy than like Europe's enemy, Europe urgently needs to re-arm.

The lesson from this is that European governments must ensure their weapons production does not depend significantly on US industry. They could be cut off by sanctions at any time. Europe must cease buying US weapons systems that depend on US spare parts, US maintenance, or software that Europe cannot maintain and change.

NATO no longer makes sense with the US as a member, so perhaps the other members of NATO should construct a new alliance without the US. That could be a framework to facilitate joint defense of Greenland, for instance. With luck, that would deter the wrecker from actually invading Greenland.

The right-wing-controlled Pentagon is imposing right-wing censorship on the libraries of the schools for military personnel.

The US government plans to scan the internet for postings that express hostility to the deportation thugs, then search high and low for all information it can get about the person who posted them.

We cannot at this point expect that this search will confine itself to legal methods.

*By voting in favor of nominees they knew should never be approved, Republican senators became [the corrupter's] subjects.*