America at 250: Museum or Nation?

Donald Trump saw the decay early and chose to fight it. In 1945, the United States stood alone in its strength, industrial supremacy, nuclear monopoly, and no peer competitor. It chose not empire, but order. Through Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan, and a durable security architecture, Washington did not merely defend the free world - it rebuilt it. War-torn economies were revived, trade was re-anchored, currencies stabilized, and former enemies turned into productive allies. At the height of it