

Yeah, that’s the saving grace of the UK deal, it’s that it was very visibly a deal just to keep appearances of cooperation and buy time. And the terms of the deal (especially the import of US meats/poultry) indicated this.
Now this with the EU, with the military spending and energy, I’m way more concerned since those are big sensitive areas where the EU is in a very disadvantageous position and might very well cave in all the way with enough pressure, especially when we bring Russia’s energy stuff into the mix.
The bar is now so low that you could even have a thief, a serial killer or a regular rapist of adults, and it still wouldn’t top having a PDFile Rapist Nepo Baby megalomaniac with authoritarian and racist, genocidal tendencies.
Seriously, worse than him I’d think only the likes of Hitler. And there’s still a lot of time and leeway for him to become worse than Mr. Funny Mustache in the history books, if allowed. Imagine surpassing the worst man in history by triggering mass nuclear destruction across the globe, ending billions of lives, and for what it’d likely be the pettiest of reasons from a small excuse for a human stain.