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An example of this is a recent article from The Atlantic, which claims that autocrats in China and Russia are uniting with certain segments of the American conservative movement to discredit liberalism and promote authoritarianism worldwide. Critics argue that this portrayal is a form of postnormal lag—a denial of changing realities—obscuring the fact that much of the world is moving away from the liberal-internationalist paradigm promoted by Western elites. In truth, countries like Russia, China, Turkey, and Iran are reshaping their alliances, often pushing back against Western-led liberal values that many now see as ineffective or hypocritical.