By The Free Press | Created at 2026-10-02 09:32:05 | Updated at 2026-10-02 10:31:26
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What the Dutch Empire Reveals About America Today
Former National Security Council official Alexander Bick on lessons from history about trade and war for Trump’s America.
How do you fight a superpower you can’t afford to stop trading with? The Dutch faced that problem at the start of the 17th century in their war against Spain, and their answer was the Dutch West India Company, a business built to wage war. Alexander Bick, a historian who served on the National Security Council under Barack Obama and Joe Biden, joins Sch…
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