So let’s game this out.

US soft power will decline, and regional powers and China will fill the vacuum. Europe can slow the US fall by actively welcoming China to bid on US port access, thus making everyone play nice a few more years, but we need to look for a soft line of Chinese power in the Philippines around 2050. Saudi Arabia can still collapse into a caliphate at some point, but Israel will remain a propped up power blocking Iran no matter what. If trump sold nuke secrets to SA that will be a really tense area, and Europe and Israel will have to keep them from any uranium from Iran or others.

China should definitely push space partnerships in the coming years with Europe and Russia, and while SpaceX will be hard to beat, they will face subsidized competition to keep them from being the only game in town, requiring you to drink a cup of US crazy with every launch. So space launch costs will go down (by SpaceX continuing and other countries subsidizing), ISS will deorbit, China will build a moon base, America will talk about how dumb that is because they didn’t do it.

China will become a co-leader of research with Europe, it will become common for US grad students to leave the country to go to good schools in their field.

He must have heard it in bound. Imagine russians for the next 20 years after the war when they hear a drone.

When Britain started delivering manpads, putin should have said he was joking and pulled back.

I can’t imagine being a member of the current us government and know nothing you say matters, so you’re just kinda there because trump wouldn’t come.

Why would anyone be a US envoy now, nobody cares what you say, because your boss doesn’t care what you say.

I mean Tim, if you wanted me to stop using maps you could have just asked, you didn’t need to insert ads.

Naming a drone Donkey Punch just got a little more likely.

I have a strong feeling the US is going to contract in its world leadership role over the next 20 years, and I’m curious how many international base agreements will expire by 2050 and not be renewed.

Maybe a cello if it was human grade. But that’s tardigrade.

I feel everyone not in logistics and maintenance is excited about this.

I do have serious concerns trump will draw back us forces due to whatever compromising material is out there. I tend to believe putin has material that will allow Ivanka to escape her pre-nup and take trump to the cleaners.

I know, they’re gathering like witches at black masses!

If this ends with russia sending the US cheap oil and american partisans blowing up refineries, I am going to need a new bingo card.

I hope this is a thunder run with good support troops following in to fill the gap. A big wedge here crimps russian logistics as it grows.

That’s a big point… when you degrade a battalion, you degrade (generally) the line troops. There are support troops, admin, logistics, etc associated that are not generally killed. A truck strike like those vehicles gets everyone.

“More presidential.”

He can change! He’s gonna take me to Paris, he said so!

Frustrated he’s adding mid-content ads, but still solid material.

That was a very impressive blast for that size of a package.

No, completely beyond the environment. There’s nothing out there.