"The ability of the US to tell the world what to do is ending. In many places, that ability has already ended."
https://mishtalk.com/economics/russia-to-export-coal-to-india-via-iran-its-a-4-alarm-bells-fire/
While Americans have been absorbed with things like what's woke and what's not or who to shame and what for, there's a bunch of new kids on the block who can give them the finger.
And AUKUS doesn't seem all that relevant suddenly.
