{"id":136033,"date":"2025-09-08T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136033"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:00:14","slug":"why-america-has-always-needed-an-enemy-even-as-a-young-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136033","title":{"rendered":"Why America has always needed an enemy, even as a young republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIt\u2019s rare to find an opinion piece that embodies nearly all the false premises and presuppositions that underpin the American empire, now in undeniable retreat. But Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief of staff to Barack Obama, mayor of Chicago and until recently US ambassador to Japan, has managed to do just that.<br \/>\nWriting in The Wall Street Journal on August 31, Emanuel claims that the question today for Americans is: \u201cCan China be the external threat that restores internal cohesion to our&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3324679\/why-america-has-always-needed-enemy-even-young-republic?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIt\u2019s rare to find an opinion piece that embodies nearly all the false premises and presuppositions that underpin the American empire, now in undeniable&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}