
Radio War Nerd EP 358 — Syria War Update, feat. Joshua Landis
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Is the United States a Superpower?
There are over 400 about 400 U.S. interventions since the creation of the United States 76 half of them have been since World War II. A quarter of all of our interventions have been since the end of the Cold War which is only a 30 years period really since 1990 32 year period. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and no real threat to the homeland why would the United States be intervening at such a furious pace? It can't because it's had this moment since 1990 of being the only the unique superpower it can intervene without worrying that the Soviet Union or China or anybody else is going to throw in arms and escalate and hurt them now, he says.
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