Bell argued that [the rise of far right factions] should be understood less as a straightforward product of economic conflict than as a response to social dislocation and anxiety over status.
What America’s allies fear most is not that the United States will back down, but that it no longer knows what it is fighting for, yet refuses to stop.
The era of political multipolarity has arrived, and a security framework based on unilateral dependence is only becoming more inadequate against complex threats.