The architecture of American power, built painstakingly over seventy-five years, has been abandoned. This will be remembered as the moment when America’s Pacific century came to an end.
Great read.
Former partners have concluded - with the speed of realpolitik pragmatism - that they cannot build their futures on the foundation of an emotionally unstable, shifting, petty, and small-minded American administration.
America’s position in the global hierarchy isn’t guaranteed. It can be lost with stunning rapidity when an economically illiterate con artist and a cadre of ideologues are drunk at the wheel.
Given the current direction of American politics, it’s a good thing the loss of influence is happening faster than anybody expected.
thank goodness
