Given the current state of global energy supply, this isn’t a hard conclusion to come to. What is ironic is that after almost a century of Western political cooperation, the very principles of economic interdependence that created the cohesive Western system have now become its main stumbling block.

Over the weekend, North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb. It was a headline that I certainly didn’t want to see, because I knew that giving more attention to Kim Jong-un only fuels his egocentric ways. North...