I originally wrote this on January 2, 2023. I caught a lot of flak for it at the time because American exceptionalists just cannot handle any criticism that unsettles their worldview. But in the context of Trump’s full-throated embrace of imperialism—about which I’ve already said much and will continue to—it’s important to understand that US foreign pol…
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