I’ve been listening to some ladies who have been studying the British Empire and it’s involvement in American politics as well as broader geopolitics, both historically and today. I took notes from one of their interviews and here’s my editorial using some of Susan Kokinda’s information.For nearly a century, Americans have been taught to view global politics through a narrow lens: democracy versus communism, the United States versus Russia or China, NATO as a benevolent force for stability. But history tells a more complicated story — one that is resurfacing now as former President Donald Trump reopens debates that many in Washington hoped would remain buried.A hundred years ago, U.S. military planners understood something few modern Americans do: Britain, not Russia or C
