Hell hath no fury like a superpower in decline
Dismal performances by top officials on China and Russia last week indicate an astonishing lack of self-awareness — or worse.
Graham E. Fuller is a former senior CIA official and author of numerous books on the Muslim World. His first novel is “Breaking Faith: A novel of espionage and an American’s crisis of conscience in Pakistan,” followed by “BEAR — a Novel of Eco-Violence in the Canadian Northwest.”
Dismal performances by top officials on China and Russia last week indicate an astonishing lack of self-awareness — or worse.
If post-Cold War US foreign policy wasn’t intended to seek monsters to destroy, it is certainly created them.
The veteran diplomat will tell Biden what he doesn’t want to hear, and that’s a good thing. And refreshing.
The short answer is, no, it is not. Yet it may be understandable why the US might well believe it so.