@jmaris It’s excruciating. I hope that the US will get out from under the control of billionaire criminals (and the pathologically power hungry) and, in the future, will at least *try* to do some good. In the meantime, I’d welcome just less evil. US policy not only hurts Europe, the Middle East, everywhere, it hurts the US. And while Trump is the idiot-in-chief, very little of this would be happening without Republican support. We have so much housecleaning to do.

@SER617 @jmaris I figure I’m preaching to the choir, but all of this is about human greed and failings. I don’t think most people are shits, but we as a species seem to be susceptible to greed, it tends to warp our perceptions putting us in a self destructive state for the whole because we stop caring about others outside our immediate tribal sphere. And notice, the more wealth is involved, the smaller the perceived tribe becomes. 🤔