Subject: Re: Spy down another 4 percent,
America receding from its alliances, abandoning its principles of support for democracy, the rule of law, threatening allies, no longer valuing mutual trust and long term mutually beneficial relationships, abandoning international institution of which it was the primary architect, abandoning all of its soft power around the globe. Replacing those with a purely transactional and extortional zero-sum view of geopolitics, and showing a tendency to get along with foreign dictators more than with former allies.

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