• American ideals are no longer being shared and spread abroad

• A vacuum of need is opening which China will be happy to fill. China can “come to the rescue”.

• Food instability and famine will lead to an increase in disease (which will spread), war, and extremism

• The ending of Malaria treatments in poorer parts of the world will allow the disease to spread more widely

• Govt instability will lead to war, reduction of exports by war-ravaged countries, and the expedinture of more of the world’s resources. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

• Other nations can no longer trust the US because The Republican Administration have reneged on so many promises and commitments

  • This leads to increasing costs. Trust lowers costs. That trust won’t be recovered for three generations.

• US added to Civil Rights watch list: https://time.com/7266334/us-human-rights-watchlist-civil-liberties/
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• 2025 May - Moody’s ratings agency downgrades the U.S. due to a less reliable and lawful economy and expected deficit increases.

• Prior to trump, US Agencies could act based on their mission and objectives and the political party of the president didnt matter. now many agencies must act as trump wants them to act, even if that doesn’t align with their mission, therefore they have lost some independence and their mission is no longer clear, it is ambiguous and subject to trump’s whims which causes the agencies to flouder more.

• 2025 May - “Our gathering economic storm includes another feature that could drive the economy onto the rocks. Apart from the tariffs, Trump’s aggrieved attacks on the rule of law also threaten the willingness of foreign investors to continue holding and buying American bonds and stocks. Along with the rest of us, they see Trump and his administration unilaterally abrogating contracts, withholding appropriated funds, dismissing court decisions, attacking judges for enforcing their rulings, deporting people without charges or hearings, providing special treatment for large contributors and favored companies, and threatening law firms and universities without any legal basis.”

2025.5.6 QUOTE OF THE DAY - ‘No one could have imagined a few years ago that one of the largest democracies in the world would cancel research programs simply because the word “diversity” was in the program.’ - French President Emmanuel Macron criticizing the Trump administration’s cancellation of research grants, at a “Choose Europe for Science” event at Paris’ Sorbonne University. Here, officials announced the EU will spend $567 million over the next three years to attract researchers to Europe.