The disproportionate influence of the west is exactly why the leftists want to clamp down on western power and obliterate western civilization. They will point to the author’s chest-thumping essay above as the reason for their work.
I’m not particularly worried about “western civilization”, I’m more concerned about Civilizational Christianity. Maybe at one point they were the same thing. Such is no longer the case.
I think the time is close at hand where to preserve the latter we have to let the former die, as it has become a cult that idolizes hedonism and materialism.