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This article by Ben Rhodes, a former Deputy National Security Advisor for Obama, proposes a significant shift in US foreign policy.

He suggests that the US should abandon its primacy mindset and move away from the political maximization and Western-centric perspective that has led to mistakes in the current Biden administration.

He argues that meeting the moment requires moving towards the future, rather than trying to regain lost hegemony. Rhodes acknowledges that the world has changed and the US should view itself as a power coexisting with others, rather than dominating.

Rhodes points out the absurdity of framing democracy vs autocracy as a confrontation with specific adversaries when Western democracies are struggling. He suggests that instead of trying to change other countries' systems, the US should focus on detoxifying its own democracy.

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