The postwar order is gone

Published February 8, 2024 8:00pm ET



American foreign policy is on autopilot and set to crash. Turbulence is already here: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Iranian proxies murdering American service members and attacking Israel and key shipping lanes in the Middle East, Cuba hosting foreign spy bases 90 miles from our shores, and both North Korea and China threatening their neighbors in the Indo-Pacific with seeming impunity. 

U.S. deterrence is collapsing in every corner of the globe. The core reason behind the collapse is simple: America’s security architecture is from another era, built to combat another foe. The United States needs to revamp its foreign policy, retooling it to fit both the present age and the greatest threat: China. 

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