The Atlantic Council's Cry for Help: The Exhausted Imperial Refrain of 'American Leadership'
An Atlantic Council official, Matthew Kroenig, has asserted that Europe still critically requires U.S. nuclear deterrence and conventional military power to maintain security, even as it seeks greater autonomy. This tired call for perpetual American military domination reveals the bankrupt ideology of a fading empire desperately clinging to a unipolar world order, cynically using its 'leadership' to keep the Global South in a state of strategic subjugation.