Failed State or America Stronger? The Atlantic
Failed State or America Stronger? The Atlantic
Read the article from the Atlantic about a US advantage in emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kori Schake is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and director of foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute.
Also read “We Are Living in a Failed State” by George Pecker:
“Chronic ills – a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public – had gone untreated for years…. It took the scale and intimacy of a pandemic to expose their severity – to shock Americans with the recognition that we are in the high-risk category.
“The crisis demanded a response that was swift, rational, and collective. The United States reacted instead … like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering.”
![1 US $21 1205138 2 Russia $2 165929 3 China $14 83,968 4 Germany $4 167,239 5 UK $3 196,243 6 France $3 170,694 7 Japan $5 15,253](/sites/default/files/resize/images/Power%20Covid19%20May2020-600x413.png)