I don’t need to break through the Washington Post’s paywall to know just how incorrect and foolish this editorial is from the papers resident spook, David Ignatius.
The American empire is in decline. Has been for decades now. And sometime during the Trump administration, the other industrialized nations of the world finally behaved as if they knew it. Because they now know it.
Russia is down? Sure. They have made a devastating choice. But the US is not up. That is laughable.
This is an old man reaching back to the times that made him a trusted journalist for the CIA and a well-paid pundit on MSNBC (which he still is).
The Washington Post is good for two things: solid investigations of the White House, and it’s a journal of how the American Empire sees itself and the world. It is the official news outlet of the empire. Which is why this editorial also just dropped today, which argues that banning abortion would weaken the response capabilities of the US armed forces.
LOL