The last decade has not been good for the collective West. The list of setbacks is long: the resurgence of Russia along Europe’s periphery signaled by the 2008 Russian-Georgian war; the economic meltdown in the United States and Europe; the continued rise of China and the accelerated shift in economic power balances across the globe; the so-called “Arab Spring” in 2010–11 that heralded the final bloody unravelling of the Sykes-Picot system in the Middle East; the Russian seizure of Crimea in 2014, war in eastern Ukraine, and the attendant deep freeze in relations with Russia; war in Syria followed by …read more
Source: The American Interest
