Ian Bremmer

The biggest thing that happened today is the Emiratis, ally of the United States, unilaterally withdrew from OPEC, an organization the Americans don't like, and is now gonna be weaker, more fragmented, more led by Saudi Arabia.

That is part of what is a growing divide between an Emirati bloc and a Saudi bloc on security, on economics and technology in the Gulf.

And definitely the Iran war has accelerated that

pretty dramatically.

But take a quick step back.

The other big news this week out of Iran is that the German chancellor publicly said the United States is being humiliated.

The French president

publicly said that the U.S.

president, the Russian president, the Chinese president are all directly against Europe, acting together against Europe.

Those are things that at best you usually hear with inside voices.

You don't hear them saying publicly.

So, I mean, this unwinding

of U.S.

alliances, this anger and fragmentation geopolitically, both in the region and more broadly, is clearly becoming more front and center.

And, you know, there are questions over how much this is in America's advantage over the short, the medium, and the long term.

But the anger, the feelings are raw.

And the view that these institutions, these alliances are not serving the purpose of the US or the allies, those things are growing and becoming much, much more direct.

And the pain that comes from an Iran war that we're now in the third month of, no end in sight, as you said, the economic consequences are massive, as well as the geopolitical, is really leading to a lot of anger and hostility and mistrust

on the global stage.

So maybe that's the way I would frame it just to start.