Walter van HolstMar 10
Folks, if this is a headline on CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/09/business/oil-iran-strait-navy-economy ("The grim choice facing the Trump administration: Economic or naval collapse?") we truly are through another looking glass. In my half century on this planet I have not seen headlines this gloomy. TL;DR FAFO.
The grim choice facing the Trump administration: Economic or naval collapse?

The Trump administration is currently trapped between the specter of a global economic recession and a naval catastrophe.

CNN
Show threadgny026Mar 10
@whvholst pax americana is over. Which is scary but at the same time encouraging. Ok, at this point more scary.
Show threadWalter van HolstMar 10
@gny026 It was over with the previous München Conference. We're now faced with adjustment to this new reality.
Show threadgny026Mar 10
@whvholst yeah, that was ugly. The decline has been apparent since at least 2016. Regardless, what matters is whether the EU will be able to stand on its own. I'm hopeful, but my magic 8ball says: undecided
Show threadWalter van Holst
@gny026 Imagine a future in which Orbán gets re-elected, Bardella gets elected as French president, Farage becomes MP of the United Kingdom and AfD enters a coalition government with CDU/CSU in Germany. None of these scenarios are impossible, some are even subject to a growing likelihood...
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Show threadgny026Mar 10
@whvholst 😰😱
Show threadWalter van HolstMar 10
@gny026 Yes, these are not happy thoughts...