Is a U.S. president that hits allies with tariff increases, pressures them to spend more on defense, assaults them verbally, and now demands them to join a war, really a trustworthy partner?
Is a U.S. president that hits allies with tariff increases, pressures them to spend more on defense, assaults them verbally, and now demands them to join a war, really a trustworthy partner?
[W]hen ethics are abandoned for epics, and when political power subverts rational military decision-making, it is not surprising that symptoms of strategic fatigue begin to develop.
Military power alone cannot sustain global dominance, and attempts to assert it in the face of structural decline may hasten the very outcome they seek to prevent.
Military power alone cannot sustain global dominance, and attempts to assert it in the face of structural decline may hasten the very outcome they seek to prevent.