To back away now would leave Iran as the new hegemon in the region. We would face profound economic and strategic consequences as the petrodollar is rerouted to China, and the Gulf states realign their loyalties, policies and investments.

This would impact us with mounting interest rates, inflation and slower growth. U.S. credibility as an ally and global force would be shattered. Withdrawing from NATO would only deepen the problem.

This war has fucked the US over.

I honestly don’t know what Carney is doing. She is a vaccine skeptic and socially conservative on many issues.

hope to see them back in my area in the summer.

I think you’re missing the tenet of the intent. China is building a China-centric trading eco system. They want what US has. The rest of the world subsidizing them while they control the world trade and financial system. This new block is trying to be counter-weight in negotiating a better WTO against China and the US. The picture you’re missing is that the post-WWII order established by non-communist countries are geared to favor the US and the West. But now that US is breaking the old understanding where that advantage was shared with junior partners, they are finding themselves at a disadvantage. That’s why Carney is smartly trying to organize the junior partners of US to form a block, to not only revive WTO, but to create a better one.

China is building its own axis with China at its center, with ambition to rival and take over from the US as the world’s only super power. India is in the BRIC block very friendly with Russia, led by a right wing Hindu nationalist party. They got their own blocks.

Is that the regime change Trump and Netanyahoo wanted?