this's remarkably good on hegemony post trump
"Hegemony is not a birthright. It is a practice, renewed daily by choices—some grand, some mundane. The U.S. had immense resources, allies, and reservoirs of goodwill in 2016. But these assets have and are now being squandered at an extraordinarily rapid rate, definitely in part by simple malice, but even more so by neglect, confusion, and the ever-present temptation to turn inward"
#internationalRelations #hegemony #diplomacy #politics
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/a-note-on-the-closing-of-the-path