Trump, his supporters, and his enablers have never displayed any strong or deep understanding of how the postwar international system served American interests. That system is only a superficial diversion for them. The author is an American scholar. ISTANBUL "There really was, it seemed, a nation on this earth prepared to fight for the freedom of other men, and to fight at her own expense, and at the cost of hardship and peril to herself; a nation prepared to do this service not just for her