It’s a truism that the biggest threat America faces is China, but it strikes me that our greatest threat is actually ourselves.

Writes and podcasts at Samsara Diagnostics on religion, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Day job in tech working with governments and nonprofits.

Folks are raising the alarm that China, Russia, and Iran are growing more bold in decoupling from the American lead international order, but that’s largely due to us becoming weak and sclerotic. That alliance wants a multipolar world, not a world empire.