America Still Loves the Warfare State

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

06/08/2021 José Niño

The difficulty Trump encountered in trying to even slightly scale back American military schemes shows just how far Americans are from abandoning the idea that the United States is the indispensable nation entitled to fight wars always and everywhere.

Original Article: “America Still Loves the Warfare State“

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