Groundhog Day. Every artificially created dip gets bought by stronger hands.
"In order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted." William HazlittBut when deception fails, it unleashes the pent up power of an earthquake.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception