[nuancebydefault]

Sometimes people (e.g. US voters) will only learn by running into a wall. How all exactly will turn out is hard to tell and frankly maybe we better don't know. I'm tending to the conclusion there's no way around the movement of the big picture, the shifting of geo-political order in the world.

[andrewflnr]

Certainly, global trust in the US is already gone. That's locked in for the foreseeable future.