As the Empire Ends, Its Security Architecture Cracks

The US global security architecture since 1991 has been exogenous. US lackeys and beneficiaries are cultivated to deal with threats to the US on their own lands – no matter the cost to their national politics, economies and neighborhoods. The agreeable, consenting states serve as US tools to weaken, stress, or destroy potential enemies, and as markets for overpriced, over-advertised, and over-sold US defense and security exports.

This is no secret. Unlike leaders around the world, American policy makers cannot imagine an endogenous. . .