The latest Fred Kaplan piece on Slate — which you can read here if you can scale the paywall — is headlined "Trump Is Making the U.S. an Increasingly Irrelevant Power.' Basically, it says that Trump's ineptness at wielding power and his tendency to hurl threats and then back down from them is causing all the leaders of the countries involves in current wars to find ways to work around him. I wish everyone in this country could.