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Why Putin Can't Win, China Won't Fold, and Trump Is Running Out of Options
What if the three most dangerous regimes on earth — Russia, China, and Iran — are all weaker than they appear, and yet America is still losing ground to all three at once?
Sir Niall Ferguson has spent a career studying how empires rise, overreach, and fall. He watched the Soviet Union collapse from the inside out while everyone in Washington assumed it would last forever. He's been warning about China's hidden fragility for years while the consensus said otherwise. Currently, he's watching the United States make the most conventional mistake of Donald Trump's entire political career: getting…
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