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Gorbachev thought Leninism could become democratic, Trump that America and Western civilisation could be made great again.
Gorbachev was bound to fail. Was Trump?
Yes the multipolar world cannot be wished away, but he has stumbled into a trap entirely of his own making.
Robert Pape in "After Beijing, the World Looks Different," argues that the Iran war may be remembered as the first conflict of the post-American era, the moment when the world stopped fearing U.S. military dominance in the way it once did.
Despite weeks of American and Israeli strikes, Iran has defeated the USA.
Beijing watched closely.
Professor Pape says great powers rarely collapse all at once — the world simply slowly stops fearing them in the same way.
Chas Freeman says empires decline the way Hemingway said bankruptcy happened, gradually and then suddenly.
Robert Pape in "After Beijing, the World Looks Different," argues that the Iran war may be remembered as the first conflict of the post-American era, the moment when the world stopped fearing U.S. military dominance in the way it once did.
Despite weeks of American and Israeli strikes, Iran has defeated the USA.
Beijing watched closely.
Professor Pape says great powers rarely collapse all at once — the world simply slowly stops fearing them in the same way.
Chas Freeman says empires decline the way Hemingway said bankruptcy happened, gradually and then suddenly.
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