But the red thread connecting these seemingly disparate events is the West’s growing inability to function as a pole of stability and power, imposing order on a chaotic world. Of course, even in the heyday of American or European power, there were always wars, conflicts and revolutions that perplexed and frustrated the powerbrokers of the West. But what is new is that the political, strategic and ideological dominance of the West is now under challenge in entire regions, all over the world
