America could strengthen its future through moral, economic, and political reform, and she just might try. But it won’t recreate the world; it won’t restore all power to a handful of colonial powers with a bygone monopoly on industry and technology.

The New Silk Road: How the West Was Lost

by Stephen Masty

While the Superpower was recently paralyzed over civil war in Syria, the Future Powers met quietly in Astana. Their decision tells us much about 21st Century geopolitics, the balance of power, and the role of decadence in the decline of nations and empires.

The Chinese, Central Asians, Russians and Iranians are rebuilding the fabled Silk Road without the silk. In the short-run it will create a vast trade-zone independent of America, circumventing the West’s key strategies just as surely as bygone armies strolled over ancient China’s Great Wall, and modern Europe’s Maginot and Siegfried Lines. In the longer run it will weaken, or may even the collapse, the dollar, with America and Europe relegated to the status of Brazil today.

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