But is it really American foreign policy that's introducing chaos?
I see other forces at work. The end of the Cold War removed an entire aligned bloc of nations out of the control of a hegemony, and the nominally non-aligned nations suddenly lost strategic value as military assets to be won-over. Technology is empowering ever smaller groups and individuals, even as global capitalism are creating more and more members of the global middle class. A new global system is building itself over the old. Those forces are not remotely approaching dynamic equilibrium, and the troubles won't end until it does.
I see other forces at work. The end of the Cold War removed an entire aligned bloc of nations out of the control of a hegemony, and the nominally non-aligned nations suddenly lost strategic value as military assets to be won-over. Technology is empowering ever smaller groups and individuals, even as global capitalism are creating more and more members of the global middle class. A new global system is building itself over the old. Those forces are not remotely approaching dynamic equilibrium, and the troubles won't end until it does.
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