“In some ways, the dissolution of the U.S.-led order that was patiently and assiduously built in the decades following World War II has already been swifter and more surprising, not to mention more gratuitous, than the fate that befell the Soviet empire.“

Howard French(hofrench.bsky.social): Tragic farce in the late-stage decay of a superpower. My column. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/23/t.. ()

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