1. Among Very Serious People the real argument for American global hegemony is not freedom or democracy but stability.
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10. A lot of America's "soft-power" is rooted in consent -- a widely shared sense that USA leadership serves wider interest. That's fading.
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If there's any foreign policy doctrine that they subscribe to, its the notion that nation-states are moved only by projections of hard power
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No on knows, especially themselves, if the U.S. carries enough ballast, to withstand any kind of destabilisation.
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