Rampaging right wings kind of come with the territory, its
what's to be expected when the middle classes, who have been conned by the rich into thinking the world owes them a living, finally realize they are never going to be allowed into Upper Management. In fact, they're going to be damn lucky if they can just manage to stay off the dole.

Nuclear weapons make it unlikely that the major nations of the world will ever be invaded by a neighboring superpower. No matter how much you're outgunned and outnumbered, a nuclear shotgun under the bed will deter even the most reckless intruder. As for pushing your weight around the world arena, 70 years into the nuclear age and no one has yet been able to use one offensively to any effect, not us, not the Russians, not the Chinese. Not the Brits or Frogs, either. Its only little countries with the Bomb that are a cause for worry, and they will only be tempted to use it offensively against other little countries.

But big, powerful, well-armed industrial powers will still be able to dominate the world through trade and intimidation: economic imperialism. But that's the way it has always been. We've been doing it for almost a century now. So what else is new? Maybe its someone elses turn.

Maybe its China's turn, now. She has the population and the economic growth, maybe its Russia, it has the strategic location and the resources. Maybe we'll start beating up on Latin America again. We were always pretty good at that.

This kind of thinking is called Geopolitics. It was all the rage in the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. Look up Mackinder and Mahan. They got it all wrong, too.