Not at all, the US is still the world leader in research institutions.

And I say this as an European, we’re miles behind really. You have to make a lot more fuck ups for us to catch you.

If Europe wants to pick up the slack, it needs to start pumping an order of magnitude more money into its universities than it currently does. US universities dominate because they are rich. As a holder of a PhD from a European university, I don’t see this ever happening. But I would love to be proved wrong.

No, everyone is worse off. There is nothing good that comes from this.

> other research institutions will become the new leaders

Or the knowledge just goes away, the talent wasted.

No this is not good for the World in case you have forgotten America is part of the world and though I hate what is happening just as much as anyone I will work to make this nation better. We are in a tough time and I genuinely do not know if things will get better but we will try.

When there's less competition and opportunities for talent the whole community, globally, is impacted.

There's really nothing good about it.

The world will catch up around the same time research institutions become obsolete.