“Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.”

— Zbigniew Brzeziński , book The Grand Chessboard

Conclusion, p. 211.
The Grand Chessboard (1997)

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