@artemis I feel like you can hear them failing to grasp the find-out part, as allies deny use of bases and airspace, about how hard it is to do things on the other side of the planet without help. They figure they can yell at and threaten allies until they let them keep using bases. That will go great. Meanwhile everyone moves on and finds better allies in each other. There is no way they learned anything, you can see them struggling to grasp soft power and they're just so confused.