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330 | Does Great Power Equal Responsibility? America and the World from WWI to Ukraine with Robert Kagan

The Realignment

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The America Trap - How Do We Deal With It?

The dynamic of instantaneous reaction can be unproductive in the American political sense, but it's also frankly, deeply difficult when it comes to our adversaries perspective. So how do our actual adversaries handle the US stepping back? And then just instantaneously, almost to the danger of overreach, re-engaging? Well, the answer to how they handle it is catastrophically, usually, because there is a pattern in American history that you're describing.

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