CIVILIZATIONAL RIVALRY THIS WILL NOT BE WELL UNDERSTOOD PERHAPS

If the West had wanted to keep itself secure, in its dominant relative position among civilizations, as a matter of survival really, not just for the sake of imperialism, then about the last moment it was still in a position to do that effectively was in around 1917, just about the time that Wilson was congratulating the Bolsheviki on their communist revolution in Russia, around the end of WWI.