Saagar

The lawlessness has been there for a long time.

It's coming unhinged, though, with Trump in the last few weeks, because now everything is open game.

And that's why I say that there may be something psychological or something constitutional or something gangsterism in this.

But the pace of the lawlessness and the brazenness of it.

And the boasting of the absence of any restraints is something new compared even to the lawlessness before.

Now, the Europeans used to object once in a while to this.

There used to be European leaders who objected to the Iraq war, for example.

They said it was illegal.

not correct.

It was dangerous.

I knew those leaders.

We don't have them in Europe for the last 15 years.

It's an interesting question why.

I think they are afraid of the United States and afraid of Russia.

and very weak internally.

And basically, this political class has been raised by the CIA and the American deep state and all of the organizations, the Atlantic Council and the German Marshall Fund and Davos and everybody else.

You better play the American game if you want to have political success.

So they have lost their voice entirely.

And it's shocking for me because I rather like Europe and always hoped that Europe would be a stabilizing influence on an extraordinarily violent U.S.

foreign policy.