What we're seeing from President Trump is a generational shift in policy with profound implications for the job that each and every one of you will be asked to do. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, our policymakers assumed that American primacy on the world stage was guaranteed. For a brief time, we were a superpower without any peer, nor did we believe any foreign nation could possibly rise to compete with the United States of America. (05:43–05:53)
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Asserts that U.S. policymakers assumed American primacy was guaranteed after the Soviet Union's collapse.
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