EMPIRE UNDER SIEGE

Russia, our Cold War adversary, could (and would) be brought into the aborning "rules-based international order." After the Cold War ended, the United States invested ideological, economic, and military resources in a grand project of global unity. Are our "experts" so cocooned i...

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Published inFirst things (New York, N.Y.) pp. 1 - 8
Main Author Reno, R R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Institute of Religion and Public Life 01.08.2024
Subjects
Armed forces
Cold War
Democracy
Foreign policy
Human rights
LGBTQ rights
Prosperity
Iran
United States > US
China
Europe
Ukraine
Israel
North Korea
Russia
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Summary:Russia, our Cold War adversary, could (and would) be brought into the aborning "rules-based international order." After the Cold War ended, the United States invested ideological, economic, and military resources in a grand project of global unity. Are our "experts" so cocooned in post-Cold War confidence that they fail to recognize the widespread resentment of America's presumption to run the world? I fear the question answers itself. Can you imagine the domestic furor that would be visited upon a Secretary of State who suggested (again, accurately) that a foreign policy promoting gay rights and other progressive causes is a virtue-signaling luxury we can't afford in an era of great-power competition?
ISSN:1047-5141
1945-5097