Love me a good Indi post. He’s the one who clued me into the declining state of the US military. I was a bit skeptical when I had first read it because I didn’t want to have false hope about the degree of decline, but so far it seems that the differences are being demonstrated in the careful planning of Iran vs. the sloppy aggression of the US. In this context, I’m inclined to wonder if the seeming sloppiness of Trump is part his own chaotic tendencies and part the jostling bumpiness of the apparatus he is administrating. Like he would be chaotic either way, but would the operation of it as a whole seem as chaotic if it wasn’t also in decline, if that makes sense.