Take your bets now everyone, we've got:
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"stupidly tries to deepen ties with the cyberpunk oligarchy of China",
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"stupidly try to deepen ties with the impotent Mafia state in Russia",
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"stupidly try to deepen ties with petro-dictatorships/monarchies in MENA",
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"immediately double back because they realized that reducing reliance on the US means having to actually uphold their NATO spending requirements at a minimum to replace the US subsidizing their national defenses",
and least likely of all,
- "actually do anything even remotely productive towards genuinely achieving strategic autonomy as a democratic superpower in the world independent of the US' trajectory."