Governments can rebuild budgets and reopen institutions. Rebuilding trust is far more difficult. This article explores how the dismantling of diplomacy, development cooperation, and other instruments of soft power creates an accountability vacuum, eroding relationships, institutional memory, and influence that have taken decades to build.
Most people look at AI as a better calculator. I don’t see it that way. The logic behind these models makes a quiet philosophical claim: that human expression is nothing more than a set of regularities, a history that can be fully exhausted by math. What gets left out is the one thing that actually…
