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On the recordMarch 8, 2023
For two decades after the end of the Cold War, our country, the United States, was the world's sole superpower and that gave us the luxury to hope for a world in which Russia and China were coming into convergence with the values of the free world.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio reflects on the U.S. position as a superpower post-Cold War.

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