The Trump administration's late-stage superpower-in-decline approach prioritizes squeezing as much juice as possible out of what remains of American power rather than developing a strategy for resurgence, thereby handing off the residue to someone else to deal with.
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Ben RhodesEvidence Quote
“it's kind of like your late stage superpower and decline Vibe... this is not like a strategy for re Resurgence it's kind of a strategy for squeezing as much out of the much juice as we can out of uh what remains um and then handing it off to someone else to deal with uh the the residue”
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Ben Rhodes: The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy— Weatherhead Center for International AffairsCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:23:32 AM
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