The message is unmistakable: there are no absolute guarantees and state sovereignty is conditional when it clashes with the interests of powerful states.
We are faced with a "scenario" in which Washington's exclusive and absolute dominance over the entire hemisphere, from Greenland and Canada in the north to the southern reaches of Argentina and Chile.
President Donald Trump is calling on people to distrust environmental measures and ... the scientific community. He will have to prove there are no floods caused by unrelenting rain ...and that the wildfires in his country have not been caused by ... climate change.