The NYT opinion section makes a lot more sense if you interpret it as USA fanfic. Thomas Friedman has a real banger today: https://archive.md/3xsaT
"My first decade or so saw its share of bad [...] but they were accompanied by a lot of more hopeful ones: the birth of democracy in Russia"
"three pillars that have stabilized the world since [...] 1978 — a strong America committed to protecting a liberal global order with the help of healthy multilateral institutions like NATO"
