Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The story @stephenwertheim tells is about something different that happens later — American policymakers decide after World War II that we need to aspire to global military supremacy with bases everywhere, troops everywhere, allies and satellites everywhere. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 3, 2021 Hibernated

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The US becomes global top dog in my sense either shortly before World War I or else as a consequence of the war itself. We are the richest big country, the biggest rich country, the largest economy in the world and important at every table. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think it’s pretty natural to read some of the text of OBA as an uncritical endorsement of that aspiration to supremacy when I wish I’d stated more clearly that what I’m after is the older idea of a country that is wealthy and powerful and self-confident. — PolitiTweet.org

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