American actions have repeatedly demonstrated a fundamental inconsistency and incoherence. A recent example is U.S. leaders berating Europeans for military underspending, while scuttling any European attempts to create an indigenous, united military-industrial complex or buy European-made weapons. It is obvious that there is a theoretical contradiction within the heart of America First grand strategy: America is not designed to be an empire and is accordingly susceptible to the whims of public opinion. Simultaneously, both the elite and the public both desire to be the primus inter pares in an anarchic international system…

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