US Can't Deal with Defeat
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In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability – and ease – of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror, writes Michael Brenner. By Michael Brenner Special to Consortium News The United States is be

The focal shift from Russia in Europe to China in Asia is less a mechanism for coping with defeat than the pathological reaction of a country that, feeling a gnawing sense of diminishing prowess, can manage to do nothing more than try one final fling at proving to itself that it still has the right stuff — since living without that exalted sense of self is intolerable.

  • daisy
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    1 year ago

    Strange. You'd think the US would be pretty good at dealing with defeat, given how often they've had their ass handed to them after 1945.