Fascinating to watch the American government be systematically torn apart by the new Administration and amazing how they are doing it so quickly. They had a plan this time. Our foreign policy is now being reversed. Forget about freedom and democracy and the support of allies; now it's blackmail, force majeure or "give me the money honey." Reading the leaked emails from those with the responsibility to defend America reveals a dystopian level of high school preppiness, a cross between Peter Seller's in Dr. Strangelove and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu. Rule by emojis. Very sad and crippling to America's reputation. We're now a dangerous joke. Eisenhower must be spinning in his grave along with the dead of WW2, Korea, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. So the Civil Service is tamed and rendered dysfunctional, the legal system under attack, lawyers and judges threatened, universities brought to heel, the press intimidated or silent. Congress AWOL. Welcome to the New America, growling and threatening in its lair, ready to strike, quite what it doesn't know. Canada? Greenland? China? Grrrrr.....