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The Poles and the Polish bloc will scream for Turkish blood, as will the Chinese and Koreans for that of the Japanese. But the United States will pull a Woodrow Wilson at Versailles. In the name of all that is humane, it will make certain that Eurasia remains chaotic.
— George Friedman, in The Next 100 Years, describing American strategy concluding a hypothetical global war. Is the New World Order of would-be supreme tyrants and fascist superpowers that much worse than America’s Status Quo World Chaos? Is it weird to think of Americans as proponents, instigators, and facilitators of chaos (or, put another way, lack of conglomerate order)? Is the goal of regional instability disingenuous if the effect is global stability? OK OK, SORRY. I MISSED THE BOOK CLUB MEETING.
