“On the wane” doesn’t mean collapse, “Fall of the Empire” or anything of the sort. It may well mean that America starts disengaging itself from trying to be the great reformer, and returns to what it was before Woodrow Wilson’s blurry vision — a great regional power that defines its global interest not in what it wants for the world, but what it needs for its own peace and prosperity. NATO, the European Union, and the old First World in general need to take a long hard look at narrowed horizons, and thorny issues of regional relationships are going to have to be dealt with on their own merits.
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