My latest TCS Daily piece is up. An excerpt:
I imagine posterity will look back on this moment as the dusk of American unipolarity. Make no mistake, the United States remains uniquely formidable militarily, culturally, and politically, but the force of the once unbeatable ideology of liberal democracy’s unassailable march lies twisted and crushed in the battlefields of the Caucasus. Nation states have joined the rebellion, and done so with a fearsome vengeance. As China coolly flexes its muscles in an extravagant, tightly regulated Olympic Games, so too does Russia as its armies pour into the borders of its enemies. And worse, the American response to Russian aggression has been beyond tepid, and the world is duly taking note.
