There are always signs and portents about all sorts of things, some are distant and vague, some are close and sharp

Here we have a radioactive red blaring klaxon saying "the #USA is a country in decline":

"The #Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French #energy giant #TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore #windfarms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue #fossilfuel projects in the #US"

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation

#dystopia

Trump administration will pay a French company $1 billion in taxpayer funds to not build wind farms

The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US.

CNN

@benroyce let's hope the French still love their freedom more than money, as they always did. Vive la France.

"German ... RWE, which paid more than $1.2 billion for three leases off the coasts of NY, CA & the Gulf of Mexico, is 1of the companies expecting to be reimbursed.
“If we never get the right to build the plants, I assume we’ll get the money we’ve already paid back." RWE CEO Markus Krebber said"

If you lay down with Felon 47, you wake up scammed. That is how the saying goes, right?