The West seems to be playing a zero sum game, but the rest of the world is reacting by reciprocating. Both to our negative actions and networking amongst the rest of the world.

The irony here, is that if we hadn't pushed just about everyone into the same corner, they wouldn't be teaming up against us.

Fact is, zero sum still exists in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality. It just generates that much more blowback.

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."