By breaking international law and due process, the US president has signaled that it is permissible for big countries to crush small countries. The post-war era of peaceful cooperation is over. Plato’s philosopher-king is dead. Might makes right. Power is everything. Long live the strongman.
The U.S. president has given moral authority to the Goliaths of the world like china and russia to crush the Davids out there, like Taiwan and The Ukraine.
History is unraveling before our eyes. And most of us are obsessed with ourselves, absorbed doomscrolling short reels.