Strategic Self-Deception

Alastair Crooke- Opposing others’ spheres of interest is now inherent to the US’ diplomatic DNA.

Opposing others’ spheres of interest is now inherent to the US’ diplomatic DNA.

Andrew Bacevich, the US military historian, writes that among foreign policy mandarins in present-day Washington, “spheres of influence” have become anathema. Prior generations of US policymakers thought otherwise. “To pretend that spheres of influence are alien to the American tradition of statecraft, is to engage in self-deception”, he notes.

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