Except for perhaps the box seat -- it's a box seat for a slow motion train crash - replete with blood and the screams of the dying.
As a young musician, full of the revolt and cynicism, I was outraged when I learned that one of my favourite composers had written a piece about America - "Amériques"
Then I learned what America had meant to the preceding generations of a war torn Europe - it represented a place of enlightenment, rationality and hope.
That's ships sunk.
Putin and Xi Jinping must be bent double laughing at what the US is doing to itself.
