The territory it controls in both in Syria and Iraq has receded considerably under disparate offensives throughout the two collapsing nation states.
Instead, there will be a "diffuse, shifting and uncertain" array of security challenges: collapsing nation-states, global warming, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, pandemics, energy scarcity and so on.
The defeat is a remarkable turn of fortunes for Isis, which has seen its territory in Syria and Iraq recede under disparate offensives throughout the two collapsing nation-states.
Moreover, the failure of collapsing nation-states to meet their people's daily needs invites other ideologies and ways of organizing the world to fill the vacuum.
Lefortovo was first wrested from the control of intelligence agents during the aberrant years of the 1990s, when the Soviet state collapsed, a nation floundered and so many steady trends in Russian history were temporarily upended.
A nation collapsing in the center of Europe would not bode well for the fragile state of the European Union.
"That means you don't leave your injured countrymen in the field". It sounds extreme, but this is a country that chartered a plane to ferry its citizens out of Bolivia when the government collapsed; a nation willing to release hundreds of Arab prisoners in trade for a lone Israeli captive who may or may not be alive.
Mr. Kan replied that the accident had brought Japan to the brink of evacuating metropolitan Tokyo and its 30 million residents, and that the loss of the capital would have paralyzed the national government, leading to "a collapse of the nation's ability to function".
Nearly four million people have already left the collapsing oil-nation of 32 million in the last four years, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.
On Venezuela, Trump denounced the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro, whose oppressive leadership has resulted in a collapse of the nation's economy and a massive human rights crisis as hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have fled the country.
