Niall Ferguson on why the end of America's empire won't be peaceful

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Many -- unlike Orwell -- embraced Soviet communism, with disastrous results for Western intelligence.
50% : A significant proportion of the intelligentsia went further, embracing communism or fascism.
43% : It also risks becoming the villain of the climate crisis, as it cannot easily kick the habit of burning coal to power its industry.
42% : At the same time as Cornel West, the progressive African-American philosopher, sees "Black Lives Matter and the fight against US empire [as] one and the same", two pro-Trump Republicans, Ryan James Girdusky and Harlan Hill, call the pandemic "the latest example of how the American empire has no clothes."
39% : It may seem fanciful to suggest that America faces comparable threats today -- not only from China, but also from Russia, Iran and North Korea.
30% : Donald Trump's "America First" doctrine was just a populist version of the same impulse: he too itched to get out of Afghanistan and to substitute tariffs for counterinsurgency.

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