Australia and Japan in particular are starkly aware of the need for collective security. They did worry greatly about what Trump was doing on behalf of his friends in Moscow.
I still remember looking into the eyes of a guy on the elevator here...after I watched all of the 1/6/2021 events...and he showed me his "Electoral College" t-shirt under his work shirt. These maniacs are all over the place in DC. Fox and its children have been very invasive.
My fear is that Taiwan and Ukraine ops are linked. That would stress the West a lot. China might be constrained by the need for a successful olympics. I don't know how much Xi cares about that though.
China and Russia are quite cordial. Russia does need to sell fuel to Western Europe though. That will hurt them a lot. It will hurt the oligarchs a lot.
I understand that a police officer was killed with their own gun recently.
I took the racial, gender and sensational language about executions out of that statement and made it a subject we can all talk about.
And at the end of the day I'm not stressed. Football is a lot harder to turn around. Our freshman and transfer haul this season didn't measure up. I thought Hunter + this group would be awesome. Maybe they still will be after they figure things out. This MBB program has earned some slack.