It's happened again. US choppers are frantically and chaotically ferrying American personnel out of another embassy rooftop as enemy forces capture the capital city.
It happened in Saigon, Vietnam on April 30, 1975, and is happening right now in Kabul, Afghanistan. In Vietnam, millions of Vietnamese lives were left uprooted and upended. The same will happen in Afghanistan. As the former Republic of Vietnam President scathingly and bitterly reminded the world in the 1970s, "Don't trust the Americans. They will betray you."
Another way to view this is that the US is experiencing late-stage hegemony. The last time a major power pulled out of Afghanistan was the Soviet Union in 1989. Two years later, the Soviet Union collapsed.
We are not saying that the American regime is going to similarly collapse in two years' time. We are saying that it is about to lose its hegemony on the global stage as the world quickly moves from unipolarity to multi-polarity with centers of power in China, the United States, and Europe.
Thus ended the American century -- with helicopters evacuating its embassy as rag-tag soldiers from a by-gone era enter Kabul. Unfortunately, these rag-tag forces will commit unspeakable crimes against humanity. We've seen it before.
