Even when Charles Krauthammer coined the phrase about America’s “unipolar moment” in the 1990s, it was clear to him that Washington’s hegemony would not last indefinitely.
After all, the operative term was “moment.” Thanks to the extraordinarily clumsy foreign policies of President Joe Biden’s administration, however, the inevitable decline of U.S. global hegemony has arrived sooner than expected, and the pace of that decline has been more rapid.
The flagship of the administration’s blunders has been its handling of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Washington and its NATO allies immediately sought to isolate Russia with an array of new economic sanctions, and Biden’s for …