Unorthodox Geopolitics.

The USA had global hegemony in the bag. There were no challengers after the fall of communism and the dissolution of the USSR. We propped our legs up on the world, leaned back in our coronation chair, and smoked a cigar as we pulled the strings of nations and watched them dance under our twitchy fingertips.

We are two decades into the 21st century, and the geopolitical landscape is radically different from that of the end of the 20th century. China pulled the world from right out under our feet. Russia snatched the cigar from our mouth and stubbed it out on the ashtray of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, citizens of the puppet nations (and many at home) are growing tired of dancing to auto-tune chants of freedom, democracy, and human rights. They want to cut their strings but cannot, because the strings attached to their ruling classes are not strings but ropes, and at the end of those ropes is a noose.

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