Replacement with a different stability.

As the famous quote from Spider-Man goes: “with great power comes great responsibility.” Past WW2 the US acted as hegemon. They where the most powerful country and tried to use this responsibility on the global stage - at least to an extent. NATO, free access to US markets for other countries (though that also benefitted the US because it cemented the USD as reserve currency)

Now the government wants to keep the power but have none of the responsibility. It’s similar to their position on free speech.

To put it an other way: They want to be a bully.

Wouldn’t be the first time a conductor was multi track drifting on Londons public transport system.

https://youtu.be/w1qEGk24q1Y

This article is still about the recent Welt op-ed. Just so nobody gets the impression, that Elon did something else yesterday.

Not that any of this excuses the opinions he shared with the world already.