The world has changed forever

The world has changed forever

by digby




On the morning after the election, I wrote this:
We wake up today to a fundamentally different world than the one in which we woke up yesterday. The nation our allies looked to as the guarantor of global security will now be led by a pathologically dishonest, unqualified, inexperienced, temperamental, ignorant flimflam man. Things will never be the same. And we have no idea at the moment exactly what form this change is going to take, which makes this all very, very frightening.

Well ...

Here's the video of Merkel's speech in Munich saying that Europe can't rely on the US & the UK anymore and "must take destiny in own hands". pic.twitter.com/dq8cUOeT37
— Yannis Koutsomitis (@YanniKouts) May 28, 2017


Henry Farrell has a good piece in the Washington Post about this. The world is shifting under our feet.

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