Viewer Mail, Part II: Empires, War Crimes, and Bad Facial Hair | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution
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The United States is a curious kind of empire as I try to argue in the book Colossus. It doesn't like to acknowledge that it's doing imperial things, even when to everybody else. The U.S. has this superpower which will, as long as we don't lose it, keep the United States in a dominant position for generations to come. But Neil don't empires fall from within? And let's send your answer or weights from Don and Canada.
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