“And the window for being neutral is pretty much closed.”
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The only probable option for Z to hopefully have something resembling a gig and country left would be to heed some old advice:
“Suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.”
Z can replace Kimmel, Fallon, or Colbert on late night comedy, plus get a sun tan.
He’d be an improvement.
Those dudes aren’t funny.
The Scots & the Irish did this for hundreds of years. The Irish achieved their independence; the Scots... well, they got a different kind of deal.