As of January 3, Congressional Committees in Washington will be asking the same question.

With Thiel, Musk and now Huang shown to be erratic, fanatical, compromised by hostile powers or all three, you have to wonder whether a collapse of professional and moral standards across the US tech sector will make direct state intervention in its structures unavoidable

Nationalise SpaceX

Sooner rather than later it might be worth discussing the strategic implications of scenarios in which the President of a great power and his closest backers in business and tech elites have gone insane

One way to understand how huge a shift Scott Colom becoming Senator for Mississippi is in US politics is to take a look at the educational background of his Republican opponent

That Putin would wipe out most of the extreme nationalist Z blogger milieu was always likely Even if they share Putin's genocidal goals towards Ukraine, they're the last societal network in Russia that was semi-autonomous from the regime, so inevitably the state will crush them

I guess a lot of people who wrote thinkpieces about how Latin America was on an unstoppable wave to the Right now might need to do some quick edits before they get published tomorrow

In the wake of events in Belgrade tonight, Americans on here should keep in mind that there are enough signs from Minneapolis to Chicago to South Texas that such civil society mobilisation is possible in the United States too

So among Putin and Trump-backed candidates in Central and Eastern Europe we now have Orban as well as Vucic driven out of power by the kind of popular mobilisation that Putin and Trump do not seem psychologically equipped to understand

If Musk can disable Starlink against the Ukrainian or other European militaries, he can also disable it against the US government. Musk's brain is so utterly fried that in trying to prevent US state intervention he is making claims that make nationalisation of SpaceX more likely

The Russians have made their strategy dependent on Trump delivering final outcomes that the Trump administration is now too weak to achieve

At a time when UK governments like making declarations about Britain's place in the world somehow France24 manages to have 10 correspondents in South America while the BBC has 0

More datapoints for the hypothesis that the America Crisis is on the cusp of another escalation spiral that could paralyse the US government at home and abroad

Let's see what he is willing to say in front of Congressional committees

But let's not forget how keen cliques around Trump and in Rubio's State Department have been to encourage the break-up of Canada

Will be interesting to see whether this sets a precedent for political campaigning in Europe

I doubt Starlink limitations will severely hamper Ukraine's mid-strike campaign as planners in Kyiv have not trusted the US for a while. From an EU/UK angle I'd worry more about how unreliable US leaders could tamper with basic intel and air defence systems Europe and Canada use