The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindebergh #CNN #NYT

I have found his very interesting assertion in The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindebergh published in 1970, which says as follows;
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of a quarter century in time. We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.
In order to defeat Germany and Japan, we supported the still greater menaces of Russia and China-which now confront us in a nuclear-weapon era.
It is alarmingly possible that World War II marks the beginning of our Western civilization's breakdown, as it already marks the breakdown of the greatest empire ever built by man.
Note: the greatest empire means the British one.