Last Friday the Chinese government brokered an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic relations and bring a halt to the years-long undeclared conflict between both countries.

Meanwhile, after spending two absolutely wasted decades in first Iraq and then Afghanistan, the government of the United States spent last Friday cleaning up a regional bank blowup at the behest of members of their political donor class.

Years from now this will be written about in history textbooks as the signpost for when the post-WWII 'rules based order' came to an end.