Ramzy Baroud
The world is changing. In fact, it has been undergoing seismic change that long preceded the Russian-Ukraine war and therecent US-Chinese tensions in the Taiwan Strait. In fact, the US debacle in Iraq and the Middle East and the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan were only signs of the decline in US power.
Leading US neoconservative strategists have once argued in “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, 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.