The Fall of the USSR was Hard on the USA

Why? Because hard times in the USSR made the USA look good. Now it has gone away, what else can the world compare it to?

It can watch as America tries to improve its economy, or it can watch as it goes to war. 

But who are they to go to war with? That is the vital question that preoccupies it, and saps much of its energy. 

And there is something else, I hate to mention: the Virus. Can we lump the two together? 

The answer is Yes, because we have to. And we have to see that the turning point was the Vietnam War, our final war with the USSR. What to do after that? 

It's nor hard to list the Wars after that:

The Gulf War
The Afghanistan War
The Iraq War (after 9/11)
The Afghanistan War (again) 

In all all these, the US is trying to find its new enemy, but the world is not cooperating, because this enemy does not exist! 

The USA, the owner of the largest military ever, is now by itself.