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Part II: The Dishonesty of Washington’s Sphere of Influence Debate

Part II: The Dishonesty of Washington’s Sphere of Influence Debate

Hypocrisy at the core of debates about a global order predicated on “spheres of influence."

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Jun 04, 2025
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These books suck. You can read them for critique I guess, or to understand the imperialist mind, but you can do better than these tracts even for those purposes.

Spheres of influence are all the rage now. A piece in the New York Times is the latest—but hardly the first—claiming that what Trump and Vance seek is a world carved up into great-power spheres …

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