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The UN Bully Pulpit: Rhetoric versus Reality
Trump’s combative diplomacy projects American power abroad even as the country wrestles with deepening social and economic strains at home. The United Nations General Assembly in New York recently offered an extraordinary tableau of American power and of the limits of diplomatic restraint. U.S. President Donald Trump delivered an address defined not by deliberate statecraft, but by unfiltered hostility. Brandishing public threats against Iran and launching personal attacks on

Rajiv Shah
2 hours ago5 min read
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