The shafting of the poorer countries by the "filthy five" is the shape of things to come, when the powerful will unite to crush the weak.

Soon all pretense of democracy and the rule of international law will be abandoned.....the rich and powerful countries will simply move in and take what they need in the way of energy, water,minerals

Then all talk of global warming and climate change will be ignored,
political ideology will become even more "short term".