The American Conservative
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U.S. policymakers should stop fooling themselves about their ability to control international events, says Julian Zelizer .
Zelizer: America should return to a foreign policy fit for a republic.
He says U.N. has failed to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.
Washington has turned poverty and starvation into its weapon of choice.
Republican politicians have proposed military action to halt Mexico ’s drug trade, but such a misadventure could prove disastrous given resistance from nationalist Mexicans long wary of American domination.
The hallowed bully pulpit delivers increasingly less influence, evidenced by the failure of the Global South to follow the ever-sanctimonious West in its campaign against Russia .
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