The host argues that the United States' post-1945 hegemony was such a singular concentration of power that the world should not assume any later hegemon can simply repeat it.
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"struggle well it reminds me about what uh Kennan wrote in this policy planning staff uh memorandum in 1948 he was making the point..."
"very unique circumstance in history the fact that we built a whole ideology around the idea that it would be permanent is just beyond..."
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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