💬 Opinion May 14, 2026 · Timothy Snyder

America’s Superpower Suicide

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America’s Superpower Suicide
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Donald Trump’s disastrous war in Iran underscores that the guiding principle of his foreign policy is superpower suicide. But this is a symptom of a deeper condition: the democratic distortions and drastic inequalities that have enabled world-historic levels of strategic buffoonery.

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