Forkfoot you are a dangerous idiot.
Germany from the 1870s-1940s was the economic powerhouse of western Europe and its standard of living was just as high as the US's or France or the UK.
They had the best universities on the planet and their scientists won noble prizes at record breaking pace
They dominated the sports, cultural events, had the greatest composers
Yet despite all this education, success, and western ideas they still fell into the grips of fascism and militarism and twice led the world into the most horrific wars the human race has ever seen
There is nothing special about western society. Good does not always win in the world because some Englishman wrote a book on liberal ideas 400 years ago. Other cultures don't sit around all day wishing to give up their way of life just to join the enlightened happy white people in Europe.
The second China and its allies (Or Russia, Or some Islamic caliphate, it could be anyone really) combined military and economic might surpasses NATO's Their philosophical ideas on government, economics, personal freedom becomes the default for the world.
Just like how 500 years ago Europe was just a shit stain in the underpants of the Ottoman Empire it can easily become just a side note on the global scene to a resurgent Far East.
I don't get how people in Western Nations twiddle their thumbs and think
"Oh we are the good liberal enlightened humans Everyone else on earth wants to be just like me and are going to assimilate to my ideas of what human nature is going to be like"
We are the same homo sapiens today as we were 20,000 years ago we have not evolved at all our brains are still the same brains that developed in primitive tribal cultures and the fact is the weaker tribes do not win in the end because their ideals are western and enlightened they get wiped out by a stronger tribe just like Baghdad was wiped out by the Mongols despite Baghdad being the richest, most educated, and most free city in the world 700 years ago