210 | Hal Brands: What Can the Cold War Teach Us About Modern Conflict with Russia and China?
The Realignment
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The United States Ambitions in 2022
i would have defined america's global ambitions in the following terms: We want to maintain a unipolar system where democratic values are dominant. I think, you know, george h w. Bush, bill clintona george w. Bush and brocobama all would have agreed with that even though they diverged wildly on specific policy questions. Now i think odonald trump threw a lot of curve balls at the American political system. And so we may not be able to think about maintaining a uni polar system any more. But if two decades from now the international system sort of looks more or less like it does today, i would consider that a big win for us foreign
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