David P. Goldman has written the “Spengler” column for Asia Times for twenty years. An award-winning Wall Street strategist, he has advised the US National Security Council, the Department of Defense, and institutional investors globally. He is president of Macrostrategy LLC, a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, a past fellow of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and the Middle East Forum, among other institutions. His book How Civilizations Die appeared in 2011.