”The United States is spending billions of dollars to lose a war in Iran that is enriching its oligarchs, impoverishing its citizens, sabotaging its alliances and strengthening its enemies. The war is exposing a guiding principle of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy: superpower suicide.”

Timothy Snyder on The Nerve.

#thenerve #superpowersuicide #timothysnyder

https://www.thenerve.news/p/timothy-snyder-column-america-trump-superpower-suicide

Timothy Snyder: We are watching the US attempt a superpower suicide

From the abandonment of its alliances to the dismantling of its education system, Trump’s administration is tearing down the institutions that really made America great, writes the historian

The Nerve
On Superpower Suicide

And the recovery of justice

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#SuperpowerSuicide defined by Timothy Snyder Empires have risen and failed before, but to his knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity. https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/on-superpower-suicide

On Superpower Suicide
On Superpower Suicide

And the recovery of justice

Thinking about...

#SuperpowerSuicide defined by Timothy Snyder

Empires have risen and failed before, but to his knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/on-superpower-suicide

On Superpower Suicide

And the recovery of justice

Thinking about...

#SuperpowerSuicide

No it isn't an 80s band

#msnow

@AkaSci That's a story which could not happen in today's political environment. Wouldn't get a student visa because he's from a "muslim country". If by some fluke he was abke to study here, no university would pay $100k to sponsor his H-1B application, so he would have to find work in another country. #SuperpowerSuicide