JudgeMental said:

Similarly, throughout Europe, Asia, and the democracies of North and South America, Trump appears to be convinced that Hard Power alone can be used to compell allegiance. He might be right… for a while… but empires held together by fear tend to fracture faster than those held together by shared values.

The free people of the world are now looking at the White House and wondering exactly what values they actually share any more.

I was just contemplating this on my afternoon walk.

it is not just the white house, it is the whole movement that elected them to power. The whole white-supremacy christian nationalist fascist movement. I have nothing in common with that mob, save that we speak mutually intelligible dialects of the same language group. Other than that, there is no cultural connection or natural friendship.