'Global Nationalists' Have Already Failed

We already know that these nationalists cannot “produce sustainable, realistic national strategies that work.”

Walter Russell Mead’s latest column included these strange lines:

More failures seem likely. The fall of Hong Kong, the consolidation of Russian power in Belarus, the Afghan collapse, and gains by Iranian clients across the Middle East signal to both U.S. allies and adversaries that Washington has lost control of geopolitical events.

The two lines togethe…