“Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest China,” Trump wrote on Friday, Sept 5 on his Truth Social. Western grand strategy in the 1970s, 80s and 90s had as a central tenet the need to keep the Russians and the Chinese apart. Geopolitical thinker Zbigniew Brzeziński, national security advisor to Jimmy Carter, said an even bigger threat to US dominance than a rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing was if Russia, China and, heaven help, Iran formed an alliance. His economic advisor Peter Navarro poured salt on the wound by saying Ukraine was now “India’s war” because it was funding the Russian war machine. Has the West lost its ability to lead effectively?