The strategy explicitly calls for Washington to "cultivate resistance" against EU-aligned governments by backing nationalist parties.

Denmark's intelligence service—one of America's closest allies—now warns the US is using "economic and technological strength as a means of power" against partners.

And again, any discussion of America's ability to reshape the global order needs to take the level of skill and state capacity of the current US government into account

god this is a satisfying sentence

However many shells you think you have, I can tell you that if your country gets into a real large-scale 'big boy' war, the exact number of shells you have is "not enough."

ukraine was armed with weaponry the US produces in abundance and was able to hold their own in conventional conflict, it is not a secret sauce for defeating big powers that can be adopted everywhere and i guarentee you, ukraine would much rather fight with real combined arms, not drones

The state is not a tumour on a preexisting society that can be separated and extracted from it, it's a form of social organisation that forms part of a society.

as we can currently see, the old prejudices can be woken up at terrifying speed. I was at a conference with a Polish colleague a year ago who told me about historic resentment and mistrust between Poles and Ukrainians. Let us not forget the Poles& the Germans. And the French &the Germans. Etc etc

Yes NATO is crucial. Yes the EU lacks power. But it is so reductive to think that peace comes only from who has the most rockets, while forgetting why countries would use these rockets in the first place. Centuries of Europeans killing each other, not trusting each other. All that stuff runs deep &/

Of course we can talk about rules that do not work properly, but the concept behind European integration must be clear. It is a legal framework in which individual member can resolve their many differences with peaceful means.