Good point, China alone can get India driving in EV’s . One nagging thought Is that if US can’t have dominance by alliance, market control or coercion it will try to create dependence through war. If the world is at war, it knocks all directly involved parties way down the economic ladder, needing financial and industrial support from the US. Removes competition, creates highly indebted dependants , not unlike WW2. Speaking to some old timers , it’s clear that whenever the US economy falters they export war. Why would this be any different. Perhaps what we’re seeing with abandoning Europe to deal with Russia is a setup for EU to get economically degraded again. But if US is really trying to corner China as they say, leaving Europe vulnerable is counter productive as China will benefit.

100%.

US is so incredibly short sighted. Everyone is competing for the few viable, demographically supported consumption markets. After global retaliation, US goods world wide will no longer be competitive. China, Europe, S.Korea and Japan will happily replace the US market share. He should have stuck to painting his balls orange and eating crayons.

I mean he’s not wrong. This iranian proxies are just there to cause disruption to global shipping. I’m no fan of Rubi,Trump et Al. But he’s not wrong.

That was the plan all along. It was a set up.

If you could only reason with unreasonable people .

If all it took was a UN letter to the manager, we wouldn’t be in this position. Laws without enforcement are called wishes.

Don’t forget the Budapest memorandum, US is supposed to be a guarantor of Ukrainian peace, after Ukraine gave up its nukes.

US has shown it’s accords and agreements aren’t worth the paper they are written on.