I think I broadly agree with the author, but since they seem entirely ignorant of all the imperial shit that the US, the USSR and Europe got up to after the second world war, I'm not sure their advice can be fully trusted if they've only just woken up to this.

The use of 'defend' in the title, and the weird bit about how stationing troops in new NATO countries was the important bit we didn't do, worry me.

But yeah, decentralize power supply, spread global democracy, stop actively supporting fascists and oligarchs at home or abroad. All sensible things we should have been doing since the end of the second world war but it was more profitable for well connected people to align with dictators around the world, from South Africa to South Korea to South America and the American South.

Well done to all those, like George Soros, who actually championed Democracy as a real thing and don't just use that as a slogan to start wars for oil with dictators we couldn't control as much as we used to.