cwvalle a écrit :

So where are we as a Nation?
Do we have to admit that in theory the French, Germans, and Russians were
right, and we were wrong?

In a recent past one would have written :
"...Russians, Germans and French..."

Your president has done a post-traumatic mystic crisis because of the
suffering caused by his alcoholic detoxication.
He is now a religious fanatic. As all the powerful religious fanatic he
is manipulated by lobbies.
This explains the grace and the elegance of "his" national and
international policy. :-)