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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Beltway\u2019s sober and judicious foreign-policy establishment laments Donald Trump\u2019s purported dismantling of the postwar order. They apparently take the president\u2019s words as deeds and their own innate dislike of him as disinterested analysis. But is the world really imploding after 70 years of supposed \u201ccalm\u201d? 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