trajekolus

Defeatism leads to losing

He is not an Afrikaner - as the child of immigrants he went to English schools, and has nothing to do with Afrikaans.

Your prejudice makes you dishonest.

While he grew up in SA, he has no loyalty to South Africa either. We don't want him nor be associated with him

Reich did not suggest using a British alternative.
His words from the article: "The sooner the US government revokes his security clearance, terminates its contracts with him and the entities he controls, and builds its own alternatives to Starlink and SpaceX, the safer America will be"

Do you really need to be an expert to see a problem with Musk's Russian sympathies?

Bezos owns the Washington Post, not the NYT

Looking at the European situation from outside is also baffling, with putinite parties on the rise by whipping up fears over migration. Similarities with the USA situation easy to find

Defeatism has a self fulfilling outcome if enough people have it

Would it be incorrect to think that Mark Twain already described how scammers feed off the US religious right in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). I am referring to "The King" and "the Duke".