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For better or worse, the United States has limited, but not destroyed, as the world war showed, its freedom to antagonize powerful nations from whose people it has drawn large numbers of its own citizenship.
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Beck discusses the limitations placed on the U.S. in its international relations due to its constitutional framework.
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