Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“We’re no longer in the domain of the Pax Americana, where the West’s gains at the end of World War II, and then at the end of the Cold War, are vigorously defended (even if the defense of the North Atlantic sometimes extended all the way to Afghanistan) with the premise that many of those gains are as much about principles — universal human rights, the rule of law — as territory. We’re also no longer in the kind of sovereignty that the Russians sometimes facetiously proposed — and that Trump not so long ago seemed interested in — where national autonomy is paramount regardless of sticky annoyances like human rights; or where, in an alternative version of the same theory, powers have exclusive control over their regional sphere of influence.” (03/10/26)