By The Free Press | Created at 2026-09-04 09:31:49 | Updated at 2026-09-04 09:57:46
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Great Power Conflict
Historian Brendan Simms on the return of Russia and China, Britain’s contested global role, and the world taking shape after America’s era of dominance.
When it comes to world superpowers, Cambridge historian Brendan Simms argues there are only four that matter—and two of them are fading. Today, Simms joins Aaron MacLean to argue that Britain still belongs among the world’s leading powers; why its place among them is “by no means guaranteed”; and why Hitler is no longer the absolute evil against which p…
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