alt Hacker NewsThis is what Trump's dismantling of US power has brought us to. Our soon-to-be-former allies can't count on US nuclear deterrence to protect them, because not only is the US unreliable, but they might be the ones attacking.
We're in crazy-town because of Trump and the Republicans, with very real consequences.
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it's easy to lay the state of the US at the feet of the GOP, but Democratic leadership has been ineffectual for decades, either by continuing GOP policies ala Bill Clinton's continuing the Reaganite policy of deregulation into the 90s or Obama's continuing Dubya-era policies in the war on terror or in simply throwing up their hands in defeat ala the Biden DoJ completely dropping the ball wrt the Jan 6th and Trump investigations or Schumer today being damn-near worthless in offering even the appearance of resistance to the dismantling of the liberal democratic apparatus of the US government.
The Democratic Party is merely the other half within the narrow confines of allowed political discourse in the mainstream. I won't go so far as to say they're controlled opposition but it is very clear that they have had no intentions of upsetting the status quo for a very long time and it has lead to the what is currently happening today.
staymad, nerds; if you think Daddy Democrat is saving the day, you are in for a rude awakening
They should never have relied on US nuclear deterrence to begin with, even if we were perfectly-model allies. Single points of failure are worth remediating, preferably before crises.