The article mentions social media as a contributing factor.

I still think Australia did the right thing by imposing legal age access restrictions to social media. It’s poison on the weak mind

…and kids, that’s how Putin won the war against the concept of privacy, and Trump got indirect benefit out of it

Bridges can be rebuilt when you get a decent person in office.

This the major defect of US governance that is being laid bare now. American presidentialism puts too much power on the hands of the president, which can result in schizophrenic foreign policy

Yes. Very little reason to trust the United States now. Countries will tend to get very transactional with the US, and shift their allegiances to China or EU

All that influence and goodwill the US accumulated after WWII is going to dust