A Congress of Vienna Moment

The success of the american order is based in part on one thing that they were never able to predict and didn't really believe in. They don't have a theoretical construct to support that, because it's not a theory. It's just a reality of geography and wealth and power, et cetera. So you do need to put the so of unique circumstances of American power together with the unusual fact that you have a universalist, liberal democracy that also happens to be the global hedremon. Those who are willing participants in the american led liberal order are themselves liberals. And that's critical, because they don't believe that however powerful the united states might be,. europe

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