The Death of the Empire | Prof. Michael Brenner
Originally published on 5 Oct 2025.
While the West is trapped in a self-imposed fantasy world regarding Russia, clinging to outdated views of Moscow while simultaneously abandoning international norms in acts of "piracy," the US domestic structure is undergoing a revolutionary shift toward American-style autocracy. Is this internal decay making US foreign policy even more reckless and divorced from reality?Today I’m talking again to Dr. Michael Brenner. Michael is a Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh and a Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic…
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