re: #66 wheat-dogg

I would suggest that historically this was nearly always the case, at least since 1900. Everyone recognized the USA had the best intel and the best minds available (with a few notable exceptions) and that no American president (with a certain exception) would knowingly make a demonstrably false statement of international importance.

We’ve gone from that to being the laughingstock of the world in just a few short months.

Trump rejects intel from the IC, because he doesn’t trust them. He has stripped the State Department of a large number of its experts. His SoS has no experience suitable for the job, and he’s basically only a figurehead, anyway. He even rejects the advice of his own military advisors.

I’m honestly afraid to return to the USA now.

Well, there are those of us stuck here that can’t really go anywhere. I wonder now if we should have taken the advice of those in Gdansk asking why we would want to leave Poland and return home.