It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.

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