Former US president Harry Truman, travestied in Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer, is the one who made the foundational decisions that shaped the world we live in now, says the Financial Times’ Janan Ganesh.
set China on a more assertive path, liberals have tried to put a name to what we are defending from these revisionist leaders.It was Truman who made the foundational decisions of our world: To keep the US in Europe after 1945, to garrison vulnerable places even farther afield, to reduce industrial tariffs.
The result, an empire in all but name, has had costs. But the past 18 months have been a sublime education in its uses. Imagine Ukraine right now without a committed US. In another 18, depending how Americans vote, you might not have to.LIBERALISM ISN’T TENABLE WITHOUT HARD POWER
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