World At Risk Once U.S. Stops Defending Democracy: The Economist

The Economist magazine has warned the planet will be in grave danger if the United States were to stop defending democracies and battling authoritarianism worldwide.

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Thus possibility should not be taken for granted by other democracies, the magazine noted, since the US also has its own core interests, the very same ones that made Washington the Johnnie-come-lately in World Wars I and II.

Eighty years ago Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. It was a grave error, bringing the world’s mightiest country into the war and dooming the Japanese empire to oblivion.

A clear-sighted Japanese admiral supposedly lamented: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

“Today Japan is peaceable, rich, and innovative. It was the Japanese who rebuilt their country, but their task was made easier by the superpower that defeated them. Not only was America midwife to a liberal, capitalist democracy in Japan; it also created a world order in which Japan was free to trade and grow. This order was not perfect, and did not apply everywhere. But it was better than anything that had come before,” The Economist concluded.

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