A Fork in the Road

In the nineties, we forgot about the west because it seemed the cold war was over. And so china and russia and everybody was going to be transformed by us. Well, that blew up in our face. But we resurrected the notion of the west. Here we have a fork in the road. During the cold war, the us. Was dominantly a status quo power. We didn't try to overthrow anti communist dictatorships. We didn’t try to democratize the whole world because we were up against communism. Once we were no longer up against communism, we ceased to be astatus quo power,. Then everybody had to behave a certain way to be our friend