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The Iran War Didn't Start America's Retreat. It Floored the Gas.

Robert Kagan on the moment the world stopped asking whether we'd show up and started asking whether we could.

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Jack Hopkins
Sep 28, 2026
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Robert Kagan, historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, author of The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900–1941.

The Iran War Didn't Start America's Retrea…

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