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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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      3. I have to confess I used to take the stability argument for American Empire seriously & feared return of inter-imperial rivalries.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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      4. Here's the thing, tho: if you look at record of the 21st century, USA empire hardly seems like a pillar of stability. Quite the reverse!

      8 replies 32 retweets 182 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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      5. Look at the record: Iraq War, 2008 financial meltdown & President Trump. Is this what a superpower promoting stability does?

      16 replies 40 retweets 193 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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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.

      9 replies 31 retweets 215 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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      7. It was reckless of American casino capitalism that plunged world in recession in 2008, whose aftereffects we're still living with.

      6 replies 23 retweets 168 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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      8. And President Trump is a destabilizing force in countless ways (erratic, mixed messages from POTUS & staff, & alt-right alliances).

      4 replies 15 retweets 133 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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      9. Or take Climate Change, a urgent issue requiring international leadership. Is USA stabilizing or destabilizing on climate?

      4 replies 15 retweets 158 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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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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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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      11. One way to understand Obama's foreign policy was it was effort to rebuild soft-power to give USA primacy new lease on life.

      2 replies 21 retweets 142 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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      12. Claim of USA as stability promoter depends heavily on question who is an anomaly: Obama or Trump? That's not clear.

      6 replies 38 retweets 155 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017

      13. Obama's been talking to world leaders. Suspect his message is: "Don't worry about Trump. He'll be gone soon & USA will return to normal"

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        1. Wonder Dragoon Andrew: Remake Collection‏ @playcritically 18 Jun 2017
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          We can't go back to "normal" after this. I would be very disappointed to learn Obama thinks we can. I doubt he believes that.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2017
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          14. Dangers Americans have to consider is that Trump won't be seen by world as anomaly but as America as it really is.

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        1. vasabjit banerjee‏ @vasabjit_b 18 Jun 2017
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          "You can't go home again". Other countries won't and can't forget Trump's behavior. The damage to US credibility is permanent.

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        1. Natalie - January 20, 2021‏ @anataliedz1 18 Jun 2017
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          You lost me at: "Don't worry about Trump. He'll be gone soon & USA will return to normal". We've been experiencing anomaly since GWBush.

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        2. vasabjit banerjee‏ @vasabjit_b 18 Jun 2017
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          Obama's Foreign Policy failed: tried to lower cost of hegemony by transferring burdens to Int. Orgs.; waffling; & ignored domestic politics.

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        3. vasabjit banerjee‏ @vasabjit_b 18 Jun 2017
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          Clarification: it was hegemony on the cheap sans building domestic consensus. Almost similar to what UK & France tried in the 1920s-1930s.

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        1. Terence Aries‏ @TrenceA 18 Jun 2017
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          He said as much during the inauguration to Bob Dole.

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        1. Michael C. Rush‏ @rushmc 19 Jun 2017
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          That would be a very naive message.

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        1. constans‏ @constans 19 Jun 2017
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          The thing is that Obama has always had an overly rosy understanding of the American spirit and mindset

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