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Trump’s war: the kind of military misadventure that ends empires

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Trump’s war: the kind of military misadventure that ends empires
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Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call “micro-militarism.” When an imperial power like Athens then, or America now, is in decline, its leaders often react emotionally by mounting seemingly bold military strikes in hopes of regaining the imperial grandeur that’s slipping through their […]
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