Angus King: “We have got to get back into the business of communications, it seems to me.”

At the end of the day, this deal from the White House is an attempt to boost their short-term political prospects at the true cost of the American people.

The problem of escalating instability, unfortunately, is not confined to Europe’s eastern frontier. The danger of war between America’s autocratic adversaries and our democratic allies is rising around the world for one simple, troubling…

The grave danger we now face is that the current administration has undermined both prongs of deterrence strategy in different theaters — a lack of will in Ukraine and a lack of capacity in Iran.

That's not as dire as some of the AI officials who have suggested that there was a 10 percent chance of wiping out all of humanity.