Maybe I have a biased view of world events, but it feels like there's less respect for joint agreement in the world and less respect for regulation, or allowing

Maybe I have a biased view of world events, but it feels like there's less respect for joint agreement in the world and less respect for regulation, or allowing regulation the ability to function as designed, at least in the U.S. (and it seems like the world is heading a similar direction). Lessening an absolutist stance on this in favor of a more nuanced regulatory policy that requires more in depth checking seems to me like something we'll regret later when we find the agency is toothless, either because it always was in regards to this or because it was slowly defanged without people noticing.