Writing for the Brussels Signal, Canadian essayist Conrad Black notes that Trump has been taking down the few allies Russia and China have attracted. He concludes:
No one should underestimate the psychological and strategic importance of the disappearance as Russo-Chinese allies in the first half of this year of Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, on the heels of Syria. This is a seismic shift that has gone largely unnoticed and is not over.
Unnoticed only in the West, I might add. Be certain it has not escaped the attention of both Moscow and Beijing. Trump is altering the worldwide balance of power.
A man in a hurry, Trump bids fair to become the most consequential president since Ronald Reagan, perhaps even since Lyndon Johnson. Like Trump, both of those were also widely hated.
