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Feb 2024
36m 15s

Is Anyone Still Afraid of the United Sta...

Foreign Affairs Magazine
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Last fall, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Bob Gates took to the pages of Foreign Affairs to issue a warning: with America facing the most dangerous geopolitical landscape in decades, dysfunction in Washington threatened to turn that danger into disaster. Today, Russia and China are testing the international order. Iranian proxies are attacking U.S. forces ... Show More
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