1. Among Very Serious People the real argument for American global hegemony is not freedom or democracy but stability.
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Of course not.
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it's called making strategic blunders. Bush's poor decisions created the atmosphere that bred a demagogue like Trump.
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Yes. This is what clinging to power looks like
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6. A stability-promoting superpower would've used 9/11 to create global alliance against Al Qaida. Instead we got Iraq invasion.
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At this point, I think that terrorism is just an excuse to have a foothold in Central Asia, to check China's ambitions in the region.
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Will usa retain reserve currency status? That is also based on stability and reliability.
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not to mention Egypt, which produced neither stability nor democracy ...
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not sure what in the world the financial crash has to do with foreign policy grand strategy.
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I think Jeet is putting it out as another example of the US policy failures destabilizing the world
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Not to mention half a dozen coups (or is it a dozen?) and at least as many civil wars.
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