General Discussion

from countries all over the globe who have a stake not just in the economy but in global corporate and national alliances.

IMHO this realignment with Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and other authoritarian states is a shield against non-support from traditional alliances and traditional seats of power. He's all in with brutal oligarchs who won't stop him...he's immune to pressure from western seats of power.

He can tell everyone to f*ck off, except those who have offered to divide up the world with them and become history's richest and most powerful rulers.