In the interest of being petty, I'm going to point out everything wrong with Dan Bessner's salvo against liberal internationalism.
1. He claims that the US has decided to turn its back on the idea of an RBO because of the rise of China.
That's dubious. Trump's shift/
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/trump-liberal-internationalism-foreign-policy
1. He claims that the US has decided to turn its back on the idea of an RBO because of the rise of China.
That's dubious. Trump's shift/
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/trump-liberal-internationalism-foreign-policy
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Like this piece is quite divorced from what Trump is doing now.
That is a 10,000lb argument hanging from a gossamer thread of belief.
2. He says the US is "literally just using Ukraine as a chess piece in a great power politics chess game. That’s literally it."
No, that's not/
3. He says "USAID is sort of the smiling face of American imperial dominance."
Sure, bro, tell that to the millions of people it has fed, housed, vaccinated, etc.
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This is naive and paradoxical. The problem is that great/
Think Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, Chinese pressure on its neighbors, the Russian attempt to pull Ukraine back into its orbit.
The US may have acted as a liberal hegemon, but its/
5. He calls for the US to close down the "hundreds of bases around the world/
6. He says "So my fundamental position is that regional powers, regional states, should determine their future, that the United States can’t do it."
Again, this is lazy/
Anti-agency under the guise of anti-imperialism is just as abjectly self serving.