He can take his time and no need for chess of any kind when dealing with the current incompetent administration.
I don't see how Russia, China, and Iran are isolating themselves. They're definitely making inroads into what is now referred to as the "Global South". BRICS may be a joke to some, but it seems to be gaining steam. By focusing on trade and ignoring the domestic policies of their trading partners they have been able to skirt SWIFT, sanctions, and everything else the increasingly Islamic West has thrown at them.
Despite its necessity, the US's support of Israel is isolating us from the rest of the world more than even Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It's hard to say that Iran is being more isolated when it is difficult to know what foreign policy is being followed by the Middle Eastern countries who say one thing one day, and do another thing the next.
And China has its Belt and Road which has its problems, but appears to be going forward into places like Africa at the same time that France and the US are being kicked out.
They want to increase their sphere of influence.
It is less now for each of them than in the past.
Arabs came to the defense of Israel on the Iranian attack-it was the 2024 black swan everyone has been talking up-for Iran. I doubt that they have ever been this isolated previously.
Russia is self explanatory, the skirting SWIFT which really means no membership to the first world-has intuitively led to his sanction evading partners into screwing him when the bills came due. The ruble was up for the first four months of this war=sanction evading success. The ruble has since gotten crushed=bills came due and his partners stuck it to him-like India who won’t let him repatriate. He had to raise rates to 16% in response.
China has been taking their time developing their own nation. Any day now they’ll be joining us in the 21st century.
Russia has minimal support from what was the former eastern bloc, Iran has little to no support in the middle east and although a Russia/China alliance is one of Biden’s biggest blunders as US policy has been befriend one and use it against the other for quite a while-at no time has them strategically aligning been less of a threat than now. Russia is not the USSR.
I’d think that we’d be alienating all of earth by now-yet they cannot exist without US medical, Silicon Valley and SWIFT many are also indefensible to a swarm of gnats without US military.
it’s not that the BRICS are a joke-it would just take them cooperating with Europe and/or Asia plus completely reversing course on the last 50yrs of innovation in the world to make a substantive difference. When continents decimate defense and medical R & D spending for the sake of social welfare-stagnation follows. Compared to the past, our lives are barren of innovation fr No and Western Europe and much of Asia absent S Korea.