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Trump is 'making America little at last' by abdicating global power: experts
What happened
AlterNet reports that political scientist and historian Rahmane Idrissa argued that President Donald Trump is “making America little at last” by abandoning the United States’ traditional role as the dominant organizer of the post-World War II global order. In a Wednesday episode of The New York Times podcast “The Opinions,” Idrissa described Trump’s approach as reducing the United States from global conductor to a powerful but bullying member of the orchestra.
Host Lydia Polgreen framed the discussion as a period of collapsing American hegemony and China’s emergence as a peer…
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