Until recently, it had long been presumed that America will continue to devote considerable financial and military resources toward conflict resolution and lead the way toward finding solutions to the world’s most intractable problems. That presumption began to disintegrate under the Barack Obama administration and has accelerated under the Donald Trump administration, where anything that does not place the United States in an automatic first mover position is apparently not worth pursuing. Diplomacy (whatever that means today in Washington), the disbursement of foreign aid, and the delivery of disaster assistance have all been reduced to a series of business decisions, wherein a zero-sum game is the defining logic.