Stephan:   The media simply has more or less given up covering anything other than the Washington cesspit, and the struggle to get a second Republican sexual predator on the supreme court. But that doesn't mean the rest of the world has stopped. I am running this article because I take it as a major alarm that a geopolitical crisis is brewing, like a storm in the Caribbean before it hits land as a hurricane. Overt recognition of the geopolitical incompetence of Trump and the people he has appointed, as you could tell from the humiliating laughter at Trump's presentation at the UN is another sign. There is a massive geopolitical realignment underway because of this incompetence and how it is going to play out is far from clear.