I listened to the interview apart from the last quater of an hour and felt it lacked substance. It was clear that Musk is not used to interview people and too much time was spent on beating the chest and telling each other how great they are. It was also disappointing to hear the fervent support for Israel, the demonizing of Venezuela, the calling of North Korea, China and Russia for dictatorships, for calling the covid-vaccine the China virus, for blaming all the countries of the world for emptying their prisons and sending them to the US etc.. Musk was seen to believe in CO2 being caused by humans and talked nonsense about the danger of it reaching 1000 pmm.
While I agree that Trump likely is the best choice for the US, the programming due to being raised in an empire for all their leaders and voters too, makes it hard for an empirical collapse not to take place. It seems very hard for them to get rid of the belief that Americans are superior and that America is God's gift to mankind. Missed opportunities over the years, not least due to the operation in the background of the shadow national security state, sets the US on a certain trajectory and the most that can be hoped for is some lessening of the impact of the collapse. Trump may play a role in that if he is even allowed to take office.
Comparing to interviews with Putin or Lavrov where substance, intelligence and boundless knowledge on many issues is evident, then this interview was a pretty sad performance and a missed opportunity since the interview was bound to have such a big coverage.
