It has to be.  Look at it from this perspective. When you read the Farewell Address, you are looking at how it should be (Soll) and the dangers ahead that could subvert that. Fast forward to today, in the world as is (IST) what are the differences and how do you get back to Soll with better guarantees as to it's durability.  I think we would agree that the unlimited printing of money over the back of us little folk is one issue. Two, we are also being fleeced by the same group because they have their fingers in the jar and steal cookies. Three, they then present us with Drugs and the connected trafficking operations.  These three basically encompass all the shit we are seeing and is covered by the Address.  So, it must be a worldwide phenomenon, otherwise the US will never ever be secure and as is evidence by the 1st and second bank of the US, in no time they are back, with all that comes with it.