It is no longer safe? Like it was safe a month ago? It was safe with Biden, Obama or Bush as presidents?
It baffles me how people look at other administrations through rose colored glasses and pretend that the problem started since Trump took over and Musk is working on this DOGE stunt. The swamp has always been there.
It was never safe, and never will be, no matter who is the president and how outrageous some of their actions are.
This article didn’t need the picture of “Trump is signing things”. This article cannot be taken seriously because of that, and it’s so frustrating because otherwise it made good points.
Nothing is safe in absolute terms but through Obama, European leaders could feel confident that the United States would honor its treaty obligations. The idea of an American President working in conjunction with Russia to run a shakedown on a European power wasn’t even viable in the Tom Clancy-level of cold war novel.
So I’d think of it similar to how climate change has affected property risk assessment: even if your home was never absolutely safe from flooding or wildfire, your practical assessment of how much effort you should spend protecting against those risks was quite reasonably lower in the era before once in a century or once in a thousand years events became once in a decade.
It baffles me how people look at other administrations through rose colored glasses and pretend that the problem started since Trump took over and Musk is working on this DOGE stunt. The swamp has always been there.
It was never safe, and never will be, no matter who is the president and how outrageous some of their actions are.
This article didn’t need the picture of “Trump is signing things”. This article cannot be taken seriously because of that, and it’s so frustrating because otherwise it made good points.