The Americans are analogous to the Gambinos in the sense of being the international crime family that has the longest reach and decades of dominance behind it.

The Chinese are analogous to the Genoveses who are vying to move into first place on the Commission since the largest family has fallen into dysfunction.

The Russians are similar to the Bonannos in the sense of presently being somewhat upwardly mobile after decades of setbacks and to the point of breaking further away from the reach of the senior crime family and expanding their own shakedown operations.

The English are similar to the Colombos in the sense of having once been dominant but are now a shadow of their former selves.

The French are the Luccheses who keep plodding along in the shadows.

All of the other countries/regimes are comparable to the various other crime families and gangs that have their rank within the pyramid of organized crime.

A group like ISIS is the MS-13 of international relations: crude bottom-enders are who are extremely vicious nevertheless.

It’s the way the world works.