A couple things happened while I was enforced away:
Trump and Hegseth murdered a boat of people for whom the previous and extant justification for extrajudicial killings was not proven in any way beyond "just so" rationalization.
The existing process for dealing with such a boat is to shoot out its engine and board it to make arrests and seizures.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the alliance of Trump's would-be friends got together in Beijing to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War2 and to stab at the heart of the West's post-WW2 political order of NATO and the East Asian democracies we helped build through blood and treasure. They even got Vietnam to attend which fricking hates China but they know the US is a terrible ally at the moment.
Xi knows how valuable alliances are...why doesn't Moscow Donnie and Drunken Pete?