Countries don’t abandon the pursuit of their interests in the face of coercion; they alter their approaches, including, eventually, perhaps even cooperating with one another in opposition to American hegemony. This Darwinian perspective is seductive because its ruthlessness appears superficially realistic in a harsh world. But ironically it is, in fact, deeply naïve. Countries don’t […]
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Source: Win McNamee / Getty When Donald Trump told voters he would keep America out of “stupid wars,” a lot of people heard what they wanted to hear. After two decades of flag-draped coffins and trillion-dollar occupations, the promise of restraint sounded downright revolutionary. And then we all woke up and remembered that Trump is […]
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During the meeting, “the DNC shared with us that their own data also found that policy was, in their words, a ‘net-negative’ in the 2024 election,” Hamid Bendass, a spokesperson for the IMEU Policy Project, told Axios. The report was deliberately buried last year, and now we can see one of the reasons why. The […]
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