imho russia’s current problems in the caucasus are a cautionary tale of what can happen to the USA in not a few decades if the current american elites persist in thinking of themselves as world citizens rather than american citizens.

there are real policy consequences when the most powerful constituencies in a republic no longer believe in the republic.

the foolishness of obama in saying that he was a world citizen in berlin was only that he said it.

many american political and monetary elites in the USA think of themselves as world citizens but they are not such fools as to say so.