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I will begin with a declaration that might once have been provocative but may today be received as a statement of simple fact: the American World Order is collapsing.
The symptoms of crisis are unavoidable. Let’s start with the most obvious. Last November, the American people elected Donald Trump. Trump is a longstanding critic of international commitments. As long ago as 1987, he published in The New York Times a paid advertisement, in which he disparaged America’s military alliances as a waste of money.
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