Paul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦Dec 9

“America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'

Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

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Show threadJohn Rohde Jensen
@letoams It feels like treason and betrayal. But the cut goes both ways. The US have been strong because it led a coalition who helped carry the burden.
Now the US wants to go alone and have declared war on the rest of the world.
That is imperial hubris, the US might be strong but not that strong and its economy is in shambles.
We are witnessing the spasms of a dying empire.
Dec 10 at 9:53pmWeb