Doug Bandow
The United States is the world’s most powerful nation, with the most advanced military and largest economy. It enjoys the most enviable geographic position of any great power in history, luxuriating in splendid near isolation with only two weak and pacific neighbors.
The US also is allied with most of the central industrial states. Even as the Trump administration seeks to curtail American trade with the world, other nations clamored for greater commercial relations with Americans. The US attracts immigrants worldwide and possesses enormous “soft power,” including a globe-spanning culture.
America Fears the New Axis…
Yet denizens of the imperial city of Washington, D.C. are uneasy.
The emergence of several adversary regimes, of late tagged as the Axis of Disruption, Axis of Upheaval, Axis of Autocracy, and even new Axis of Evil, has come as a terrible shock to the imperial wannabes in Washington, yielding much wailing and gnashing of teeth. The Carnegie Endowment’s Christopher S. Chivvis and Jack Keating warn: “Historical precedents from the 1930s and the early Cold War suggest that even deeper cooperation among them is possible and that a more coherent bloc determined to blunt and roll back U.S. power worldwide might develop.”
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