I haven't validated this and lack the tools to do so. That said, there's a difference between agressive forever wars and supporting allies against agression through diplomacy and a big stick, my guess is we are missing the mark here.https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1182053870744276993 …
Does the US stand for something? Many understandably traumatized folk criticize the US saying it stands for only negative things. Compared to the past and to many other countries, in the long arc and at scale we are exceptional.
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In our mythology, it's our values and culture that makes expetionalism possible. Symbolicly, this feels like we are withdrawing our claim to being exceptional, meaning our values are not worth upholding elsewhere.
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I've never really wrote about this before, but found it relatively easy to write this coherently. I'm hoping I get a bit more invested in this as seems our national identity is at stake and I'd like to orient around our stance in the world.
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