But it’s the international friendships where one can most clearly see the costs mounting in real time. Just look at the statements coming from that mountain redoubt of global capitalism at Davos: Canadian prime minister Mark Carney—the leader of our closest ally and largest trading partner, whose military is now modeling doing battle with the US across what has long been the world’s longest unguarded border—got a standing ovation for a speech in which he proclaimed, “Let me be clear: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” Or take European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, who essentially called for independence from the United States. This is the end of the world as we have known it for 80 years—all for reasons that will confound future political scientists and historians. There is no strategy behind this exercise in superpower suicide other than the president’s own narcissism, greed, and his general frustration at never being respected by the elites whose favor he desires more than anything. At one level, Trump’s January rampage …