The threat to the West and the United States is not external military conquest but internal loss of faith and will in itself; the Western system can only be undermined from within.
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Steven CodkinEvidence Quote
“the US and the West more generally can only be undermined from within. The threat to the west, the threat to the United States is a loss of faith and a loss of will in itself. And unfortunately, that's where we are now.”
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Stephen Kotkin: Sphere of Influence I - The Gift of Geopolitics: How Worlds are Made, and Unmade— IWMViennaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:14:33 PM
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