BATTLE FOR WORLD / SPUTNIK NEWS | February 25, 2019: The article highlights that at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend (the third week in February), U.S. Vice President Mike Pence boasted about "renewed American leadership on the world stage," while talking up sanctions against Russia, tough tariffs against China, 'confrontation' with Iran, and U.S. intentions to withdraw from the INF Treaty.

Despite the U.S. vice president's remarks at the Munich conference, Washington DC is in fact losing ground to Russia, China, and even Iran, Spiegel Online wrote.

And said, in reality, the world Pence was describing was a "strange parallel world" which "has little to do with reality." (BattleForWorld: An indication that the U.S. empire is waning.)

Spiegel continues: "America is not leading; it is retreating. Other powers are moving into the vacuum left by Trump's erratic 'America First' policy — China, Russia, but also Iran. And the U.S. is not leading, but giving instructions."

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