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Sadly, as this current administration seems bound and determined to stand as the "American ideal", to speak of them appears to be to speak of the nation itself. I understand, however, that there are a great many Americans who are altruistic and don't buy into the death-worshipping social Darwinism being passed off as policy right now.

It's like the lad who saves your life and becomes famous for doing so when you're both young, and then insists on you standing him a pint 80 years later and all the time in between because he did it. Again, I'd hardly begrudge the help they gave, but both Russia and the UK (to name but two) paid far more proportionally in lives and money, and IMO it's a rather simple fact that we don't owe the current odious administration over there anything for the large favour they granted us and that they considerably benefitted from eight decades ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgeydkz08go The world's frozen oceans, which help to keep the planet cool, currently have less ice than ever previously recorded, satellite data shows. Sea-ice around the north and south poles acts like a giant mirror by reflecting much of the Sun's energy back into space. But as rising temperatures cause this bright layer to shrink, the dark ocean below can absorb more heat, warming the planet further. This latest sea-ice low appears to have been driven by a combination of warm air, warm seas and winds breaking apart the ice. Over the 5 days to 13 February, the combined extent of Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice was 15.76 million sq km (6.08 million sq miles), according to BBC analysis of data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This breaks the previous 5-day record low of 15.93 million sq km (6.15 million sq miles) from January-February 2023. Record breakers!

Agreed. But that's not a recipe for success going forward.

Oh, no doubt. Pardon me though for not expressing gratitude towards a favour, though considerable, was firstly done almost entirely in the name of self interest and secondly was done long enough ago to have little bearing on how the UK should view that nation today.

At the last possible opportunity and only because they had been injured personally and had no other choice and/or saw the opportunity for massive personal gain. Not out of any real sense of altruism.

Sinner gets three month ban for positive doping tests. Sounds like he made a deal with the ATP.

Exactly this. It's been building for the last decade, and history shows very clearly where it ends, if it isn't stopped. Only this time, the body count might not stop at tens of millions.

I guess it comes down to the definitions of "misinformation" and "what they want" then. As well as how sovereign a human mind really is. Because, IMO, the kind of "misinformation" (or not) Vance and his brand of nationalists pour out will pretty obviously lead to ethnic cleansing, warfare (in the cause of diminished resources or not), and widespread death and destruction. I've said it since these sentiments started getting traction again in the mid 2010s, and everything that has happened since has only made that more and more obvious. Unless nations are willing to kneel and kiss Trump's ring, I don't foresee that being likely for now.

Ethnonationalist in pushing ethnonationalism and massive hypocrisy (exactly what is his administration doing to any kind of opposition right now? It isn't offering them freedom of expression) shocker. The cherry on top, of course, being the disparaging of an individual who has more empathy and concern for the future of our species in her little finger than his entire administration has in their entire bodies.

I love that class distinction makes it into every area of UK society, up to and including making up a jacket potato.

That may well be the point. These people desire power over other people at any cost, and perhaps they've decided that burning the world and ruling the ashes is the easiest way.

And there's enough "special relationship" sentiment in the press and in the UK as a whole for cutting ties with them to really sell, as well. It would be nice though, if the current UK government could not act like sycophants.

In terms of the style of each government? Yes, very different. In terms of the way they view anyone not pandering to their own national interest and their social policies towards minority communities? I'm not so sure. Of course, the US has the ability to change course in a few years. At the present time, anyway.

Treat them the same way the UK treats the Chinese - a potentially hostile belligerent who shares few of the UKs social values but with whom some cooperation on global matters is needed.

...which, while correct, will sadly be outweighed by the wackjob stuff.

Critique without better alternatives certainly isn't entirely invalid, but seeing as it doesn't do the work to suggest a better way and instead suggests a gamble with lives and money (in this case) at best, it does appear less valid to me.

RFK confirmed as Health Secretary. Make Polio Great Again.

You can see the sociopathy lurking behind the eyes. Can't disagree with either of those statements.

Well, among the other two leading lights, one of them has a recent fourteen year track record to examine on that score, and the other hasn't had power but given the content of at least some of their promises it might be better for the future if they weren't kept. Edit: the relevant point is that people can slam the current government for broken promises all they like, some of it may even be true, but in the absence of a stated and proven better option it all sounds rather hollow.

Yes, intersectionality is really important.

I was thinking more about promises made by other parties should they have power and whether or not them being kept is in any way a good idea for the future of a great many people.

That's clearly rather subjective, but depending on one's definition of breaking promises I'd posit that rules out either all three or none of the largest polling parties right now. Also, it might depend on the promises being made.

Not speaking about Mdme Reeves personally, but is there a better general government option right now? And what would it be?

Wouldn't it be nice if all the death worshippers bound and determined on the supremacy of their own different ideologies simply decided to fight among themselves and left all the people with a hint of empathy alone to actually secure a future for our species civilisation?