The administration's obsession with International affairs and especially the great but underreported middle east allyships, is about the transition and permanency of the global economic structure back to Lincoln, Hamilton and McKinley's production based 'American System', instead of the British/globalist 'managed decline' that goes for few cheap labor producers and otherwise raw consumerism.
European Nations have been forced on the production path via the Iran war, and leaders are increasingly mentioning a new focus on local production