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Hekate

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1. Remember PNAC? The signers expected the 21st Century to be the New American Century...

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 06:35 PM

Jul 2017

While I vigorously disagreed with their goals and methods, I didn't question their underlying assumption about America's pivotal role in the world. After all, the 20th Century was the American Century already. Our greatness was in our leadership.

Who could have imagined that fringe isolationists would now be ascendant? And that they could destroy our standing in the world so swiftly and rapaciously?

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The Demolition of US Global Power (via Donald Trump) [View all] CousinIT Jul 2017 OP

Remember PNAC? The signers expected the 21st Century to be the New American Century... Hekate Jul 2017 #1

Dump is a tool of the Sino-Russian Alliance. roamer65 Jul 2017 #2