intermittently, in very narrow terms w. reno longer involved in cross the border alliance relationship, we pull out of the tpp. suddenly we create a space for cho into emerge geoeconomically in asia. we pull out of the paris agreement and the europeans have fundamental questions about what the occupation is. we ignore human rights violations, including in russia, turkey and philippines and single them out today and in a single country if iran. richard, you say the u.s. is not isolationist under trump. you used the word abdication. you say it s a few way for an empire or great state to decline, one we haven t seen before. there is truly unprecedented, in history, great powers fade away, either they bankrupt themselves the way the soviet union did in places kwliefk with the cold war or they re surpassed by a rising power, where you come from britain, in