2016 – A Victory of Conservative Realism
... hegemony—that followed it. While it was generally believed that Russia had lost the Cold War (although Russians never thought so, believed that they had overthrown communism... ... “new”—Russia, but failed again. Many of the changes are quite objective: the rise of Asia, China and the other “new” when the “old” could no longer stop... ... resulted in political fiascos in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, destabilized the entire Middle Eastern region, and shattered the United States’ moral and psychological...