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jd24yesterday at 5:45 PM1 replyview on HN

I agree. People use "soft power" as the reason the US should do so many things for free, but the benefits aren't coming back to the US.


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tossaway0yesterday at 8:24 PM

The argument against abandoning soft power is that it's going to cost a lot more in hard power to maintain the same status. We'll see how it plays out.