The world is changing. In fact, it has been undergoing seismic change that long preceded the Russian-Ukraine war and the recent US-Chinese tension in the Taiwan Strait.
The US debacle in Iraq and the Middle East, and the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, were only signs of the decline in US power.
US neo-conservative strategists once argued in Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources For a New Century that aggressive intervention policies were meant to keep emerging great powers, like China, out of areas designated as US geopolitical domains. They sought to “preserve and extend (US) position of global leadership (through) maintaining the pre-eminence of US military forces”.
A whole new world order is emerging, one that is hardly centred on US-Western priorities alone.
They failed, and the future seems to head in a different direction than what the likes of Dick Cheney, John Bolton,
