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The 1980s saw the rise of a new political ideology in the United States: paleoconservatism, or paleocon. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the apparent signs that America could now, for one thing, rest easy, and secondly that, in retrospect, most American foreign involvements after World War II have been pointless, the paleocon wing of the Republican Party became dominant and ultimately swept into the White House and most state governments in the first half of the 1990s. And with that, America's status of a superpower effectively ended.

The America-shaped void in international politics was however quickly filled: the NATO survived, though now "led" by France, and both Japan and Australia, other close American allies, formed their own alliance bloc in order to contain China. Furthermore both China and Russia surged. With recent involvement in Ukraine, Russia is once again a threat to European safety and China has been flexing its naval muscles in the South China Sea has made the Philippines and Japan worried, especially since China has already shown its prowess by annexing the essentially abandoned Taiwan in 2011. Will there be war? Will America once again present itself on the world stage again like it used to? Nobody knows!

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The 1980s saw the rise of a new political ideology in the United States: paleoconservatism, or paleocon. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the apparent signs that America could now, for one thing, rest easy, and secondly that, in retrospect, most American foreign involvements after World War II have been pointless, the paleocon wing of the Republican Party became dominant and ultimately swept into the White House and most state governments in the first half of the 1990s. And with that, America's status of a superpower effectively ended.

The America-shaped void in international politics was however quickly filled: the NATO survived, though now "led" by France, and both Japan and Australia, other close American allies, formed their own alliance bloc in order to contain China. Furthermore both China and Russia surged. With recent involvement in Ukraine, Russia is once again a threat to European safety and China has been flexing its naval muscles in the South China Sea has made the Philippines and Japan worried, especially since China has already shown its prowess by annexing the essentially abandoned Taiwan in 2011. Will there be war? Will America once again present itself on the world stage again like it used to? Nobody knows!