yes. but europeans should perhaps also ask themselves what kind of ally US is, with or without trump: on top of what @anandmenon.bsky.social was saying below (interests), there's also the issue of their declining hegemony, which appears to be pushing them to turn us and other allies into vassals

Thank you! Look forward to hearing your impressions, should you read

Thank you so much!

an application to contemporary economics of ideas of freedom as independence…It confronts the whole question of current economic policies in relation to the idea of liberty as independence.’
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'The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order'

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'The Economic Government of the World, 1933–2023'

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Thank you, glad you found it amusing. May the gods help us

I am not suggesting such a strategy (and, on that occasion, Achilles did not unsheathe his sword)