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The 38 Overseas Bases That Look Like Power - But Aren't
A nation with nuclear arms and the world’s largest economy, yet four in five Americans said it was falling apart - so what happened?
The 38 Overseas Bases That Look Like Power - But Aren't
In this episode, we lay out a historical pattern of American anxiety about decline and follow how that fear has reappeared across centuries. We trace declinist claims from Puritan theology to Cold War shocks and ask why material power and public conviction can point in opposite directions.
Person: Kenneth Weisbrode
Person: Robert Lieber
Person: Samuel Huntington
Date: 2005 (count of 38 bases)
Event: Capitol…
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