David Pakman

We wait for institutions to save us.

And half the country is just like shrugging.

And the other half is understandably exhausted.

So when Europeans start openly debating

Do we need to decouple from the United States?

Do we need to separate militarily?

Do we need to separate economically and strategically?

It's not that they're being anti-American.

They are self-preserving and realizing what is going on.

It's not tone that will collapse alliances, not normally anyway.

Its values start to diverge and it's hard to see more divergent values than those which Donald Trump is putting forward now.

Now, there's a final uncomfortable truth that bears some mentioning.

YouTube creators from Europe are increasingly asking.

Does the United States even still believe in limits on power?

Like I've seen a bunch of European YouTubers who are saying, forget about Trump's personality and his bluster and his personal ambitions.

Does the country under Trump

even believe that the desires of others matter or is it just whatever Trump wants?

And terrifyingly, in his interview earlier this week with Tony DeCouple and last week, he said it also.

Trump has said really the only limit is his morality.

If pushed, he'll go, yeah, courts.