{"id":25659,"date":"2017-09-14T18:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25659"},"modified":"2017-09-14T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:15:28","slug":"americas-fragile-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25659","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Fragile Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/09\/14\/americas-fragile-future\/\">America\u2019s Fragile Future<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The U.S. mainstream\u2019s flailing about over alleged Russian \u201cmeddling\u201d in American politics reflects a nation that is rapidly losing its global dominance and fearful of even the slightest challenge, as Gilbert Doctorow explains.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Does the United States have a future as a great power?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24259\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/35530513520_414a83b2e7_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24259\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/35530513520_414a83b2e7_b-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/35530513520_414a83b2e7_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/35530513520_414a83b2e7_b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/35530513520_414a83b2e7_b-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/35530513520_414a83b2e7_b.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald J. Trump and President Emmanuel Macron on July 13, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Twenty years ago posing this question would have seemed absurd. The United States was fully self- confident about its position as the sole surviving superpower in the world. It faced virtually no obstacles or objections to its performance on behalf of the \u201cpublic good,\u201d a process that supposedly brought order to the world either through the liberal international institutions that it helped to create after World War Two and dominated, or through unilateral action when necessary via \u201ccoalitions of the willing\u201d aimed at bringing down one or another disruptive malefactor on a regional stage.<\/p>\n<p>From many voices abroad it heard \u201camen\u201d to its claims of exceptionalism and farther-seeing vision that came from its standing taller, as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright put it. The \u201cindispensable nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years ago, when America prepared for its ill-conceived invasion of Iraq and encountered loud resistance from France and Germany, backed up by Russia, it became possible to wonder whether U.S. global hegemony could last. The disaster that the Iraqi adventure quickly became within a year of George W. Bush declaring \u201cmission accomplished\u201d rolled on and progressively diminished the enthusiasm of allies and others hitherto on the U.S. bandwagon for each new project to re-engineer troublesome nations, to overthrow autocrats and usher in an age of \u201cliberal democracy\u201d across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Fragile Future The U.S. mainstream\u2019s flailing about over alleged Russian \u201cmeddling\u201d in American politics reflects a nation that is rapidly losing its global dominance and fearful of even the slightest challenge, as Gilbert Doctorow explains. Does the United States have a future as a great power? President Donald J. 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