D as in Donald and Decline

"It's been a distinctly long and strange road ever since then, leading to the genuinely unnerving world of Donald J. (for John, as in toilet) Trump. In the years after Roosevelt died, there was no question that the United States, armed with the nuclear weapons it had used on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II, was the distinctly"

"And that would, of course, be only the first of numerous wars this country, almost uniquely in the history of great powers, would continue to provoke and fight against distinctly lesser powers without ever winning one of them. Not one! The four major conflicts were, of course, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq and none of them proved even faintly successful-and don't think that turning Venezuela into an oil colony will be either. Historically speaking, it was"

A person was born on July 20, 1944, during the final year of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency, shortly before World War II ended. The United States emerged from World War II as the rising global power, armed with nuclear weapons used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite that dominance, the United States became involved in Korea in 1950, a conflict that ended in a draw three years later. Subsequent major conflicts—Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq—proved unsuccessful, with the United States failing to achieve decisive victories. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 from internal fractures, leaving the United States the sole superpower for a time. Historically unparalleled American power nevertheless faces the inevitability that all powers eventually decline.

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