"Collapse of American Influence Recalls Disintegration of Soviet Union, Fall of France"

There is history in this article that older folks may recall...

In the New York Sun. Conrad Black begins with this and goes on to explain:

"Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and prior to that the fall of France in 1940, has there been so swift an erosion of the world influence of a Great Power as we are witnessing with the United States."