Garrett M. Graff
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81 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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That's the heartbreak of this, Brooke.
I think that this world is gone.
We could elect a whole string of presidents going forward who believe in NATO and invest in NATO, who try to restart USAID, who try to lure the best foreign students back to the United States to do research at our universities.
to rebuild the trust in the Justice Department.
And I think whether you're a potential immigrant to the United States, whether you're a corporate leader in the United States or abroad, or you're the head of state of a foreign country, in the back of your mind,
is always going to be the United States is only one election away from a Donald Trump again.
You know, I closed my Wired piece talking about the famous opening of historian Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August, her book about World War I. She opens with the grand funeral of England's Edward VII in May of 1910.
This fabulously colorful parade of mourning that brought together nine kings, seven queens, and 40 more imperial and royal highnesses.
And what none of them realized in that moment was that was really the high point and last gasp
of the grand era of geopolitical dominance and sort of the peak of the colonial powers of Europe, which over the rest of that decade, you know, destroyed itself in the trenches and poppy fields of the First World War and ceded control of that world.
They had inherited and led for a century to the upstart America across the Atlantic Ocean.
That was the moment that our century really began.
And someday we will tell our children about 2026 in world politics.
And they will not be able to fathom what we chose to do as a country to ourselves.
And they will never be able to contemplate what the United States once meant to the world beyond because the relationship of the United States to the rest of the world has been so fundamentally altered by this last year.
The complete collapse of the world order and we missed a subject or two?
I don't believe it.
That's all an alliance really is, Brooke.
It's the promise that when you need me, I will be there.
The moment that Denmark or any of these other European nations is now facing down Russia in Europe and has to sort of every so often start to turn around and check over its shoulder whether the U.S.
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