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The United States is pulling significant military assets from Europe, withdrawing fighter jets, destroyers, and submarines from NATO commitments in what appears to be a broader strategic drawdown. For the alliance, the timing raises hard questions about burden-sharing and whether European defense can stand on its own.
That shift in geopolitical tension connects, in a strange way, to a rising anxiety closer to home. The Guardian is reporting a surge in anti-tech extremism, with the breakneck pace of the AI boom fueling radicalized opposition and, in some cases, outright violence. When technology moves faster than public trust can keep up, resentment finds an outlet — and that outlet is becoming increasingly dangerous.
Meanwhile, a quieter kind of failure is unfolding in the United Kingdom. Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has found that while the Home Office finally retired its twenty-five-year-old asylum database, officials are still running critical casework on disconnected spreadsheets. Replacing old software is apparently the easy part. Replacing old habits is something else entirely.
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