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We severely underestimated how many smart people didn't realize the true mechanisms of global order

The original architects of American global power did something very clever that no other empire had ever done before: they deliberately hid the instruments of their power.

Specifically, they institutionalized the hard power of the post-WW2 American military into a "rules-based

Yishan

We severely underestimated how many smart people didn't realize the true mechanisms of global order
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2016 shattered my concepts of geopolitical reality. i still don't know anything