MSNBC Morning Joe January 27, 2022 12:40:00
It is not an aberration. we might have thought it was an aberration if, like me, one happened to come of age during the post-cold war era. but it was actually the post-cold war era that was the aberration, because the united states was so dominant and its power and values were so dominant after the end of the cold war that the normal competition we see from countries vying for leadership of the international system seem to recede a little bit. i think what happened really was a couple of things. so first was that russia and china never really bought into the u.s.-led international system. in c...