That feeling has been reflected in recent polls here in the UK too and I think the US might be finally blowing it with its ‘allies’.

I hope that the Trump administration can get all its core industries up and running because there is a big sense that the US empire is on its way out now. It was always bound to happen eventually because it always does but I was not expecting to see it unravel so fast and so soon.

Perhaps the US population can resolve (or dissolve) its internal divisions and conflict but I think it will take years and Europe has urgent problems that need tackling right away.

No doubt the hipocrisy of relaxing copyright enforcement for AI while doing this will go unnoticed.