I was watching the news again this morning, this time about the awesome AI Summit in Paris. Artificial Intelligence is obviously very exciting indeed, and obviously holds vast prospects. What I couldn’t help being irritated by, though, was the fact that they let US vice president JD Vance speak.

Now, I don’t want to seem crazy or deranged here: there is no denying that America is still one of the world’s foremost movers and shakers in the science and technology sector, no matter who it elects as it’s president. Yet with so many earnest, intelligent people gathered in Paris to discuss something so important, the sight of a representative of a country fast descending into a deranged fascist dictatorship felt jarring. Let’s face it: since last year the USA is not what it was; since the re-election of Trump, the respect it once enjoyed has drained away. One can only be sickened by his recent comments regarding Gaza. Thus to see a representative of America appear at such a conference, speaking as if he still warranted the esteem his country once enjoyed while clearly trying to bend proceedings towards his perverse America First worldview, was sickening.

If you ask me, America and it’s representatives should not be welcome at such events any more. That is the only way the world will be able to show it’s contempt and disgust at what is currently unfolding there. After all, it adds nothing. Despite it’s delusions about being so technologically advanced, going to the moon and all that, the only reason why America got to where it is is by hijacking the work of other people! There is nothing which America brags about doing which other countries can’t do better, and the vast majority of NASA scientists were born in other countries.

Again, I know how unhinged this might sound, but at the moment I cannot look at America without feeling a deep, scathing contempt. The arrogance and brashness with which it conducts itself, talking about invading sovereign nations and renaming gulfs after itself, turns my stomach. Frankly, I still feel that the 2028 Olympic games should be reallocated. Of course, I know not all Americans side with Trump, and that some will be as appalled by him as I am. Nonetheless, Donald Trump is American president, and as such America needs to be taken down a peg or two. It no longer deserves it’s position as the world’s foremost global superpower, and we’d all be far better off without such an immature, arrogant nation interfering in matters of critical global importance.