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He added he would not comment on "hypothetical scenarios" of a future US administration.

Another former minister told me that funding “is absolutely urgent – it is urgent to help Ukraine but the most urgent is where our forces are in danger – it’s not hypothetical, in the Red Sea the Houthis are firing at our ships.”

But broadly speaking, any elevation of Kennedy to executive power—even hypothetical—signals the further erosion of any kind of facts-based decisionmaking, and points to Trump’s embrace not just of falsehoods that benefit him politically but nonsense in general.

Right now, in foreign ministries around the world, including in London, hypothetical game plans for this scenario are becoming the real deal.

By the same token, if an institution with more firepower than any entity on earth meekly submits to threats that are thus far hypothetical, how would it act if Trump were actually in power?