a weakening of the Westphalian system based on sovereign states
Setting aside the idiocy of the “wesphalian” nonsense, this is almost certainly code from the Trump admin for dismantling or ejecting from global institutions such as the WHO and not a rejection of regime change efforts (which Americans will never give up on unless they become weak).
we assumed this responsibility of sort of becoming the global government in many cases, trying to solve every problem
Yeah this is conservative speak for America to stop trying to do anything good on the global stage at all.
The modern world order since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 has been based on the principle of multipolarity and a balance of power to constrain expansionist and hegemonic ambitions of states.
I have never seen such bullshit.
Either way, the rest of this article is not so bad, and certainly has some interesting bits. But the beginning seems to fall into the trap of taking the words of conservatives at face value, which is always a grave mistake imo.
Setting aside the idiocy of the “wesphalian” nonsense, this is almost certainly code from the Trump admin for dismantling or ejecting from global institutions such as the WHO and not a rejection of regime change efforts (which Americans will never give up on unless they become weak).
Yeah this is conservative speak for America to stop trying to do anything good on the global stage at all.
I have never seen such bullshit.
Either way, the rest of this article is not so bad, and certainly has some interesting bits. But the beginning seems to fall into the trap of taking the words of conservatives at face value, which is always a grave mistake imo.