When the Azeris and Armenians were killing each other in their most recent conflict Nagorno-Karabakh, the United States did not get involved. Instead, two regional powers — Turkey and Russia — were the ones who intervened, with Russia brokering the ceasefire. These two former empires filled in the power vacuum, in pursuit of reviving their old empires. What this indicates to us is the decline of the American unipolar world and the rise of a multipolar world wherein Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Japan are working to become militarily independent of American power: