Commentary: An Isolated America Triggers a New Geopolitical Reality

Every major crisis prompts a reckoning over how much it will permanently alter the pre-existing global structure. The dual oil crises of the 1970s brought stagflation, unseated the British Conservative government, and fueled the rise of the Soviet Union. Six years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic triggered reflections on urban life, though it ultimately failed to upend human behavioral patterns the way energy shocks do.