Thank YOU. And, agreed. Mainly, I wanted to point out that “the aftermath of the Cold War that is put into question” has real consequences: It’s not just some academic exercise that has little effect on ordinary citizens in the US. The days when a large country could safely retreat behind its own borders went away a long time ago. 1853 perhaps?
... were the days when monarchy was understood to be the default, natural, try-that-first form of government. Democracy has its merits, but protection of national sovereignty is not one of them: laws of property to not apply to a democratically governed country as a whole. Democracy is forever fungible, malleable, break-and-reconstitute political environment.