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Slack.com slash DHQ. This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelors.

This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelors. The World Order, the International World Order,

the World Safe for Democracy. These are terms that we've seen all my life since the 1940s.

What do they mean now in the 21st century, given the Ukraine conflict, the challenge

by China, the totalitarian surveillance techniques that can come into your home, not only spy

on you, but change your behavior. What does all that mean for the United States and the

road ahead? Welcome, John Bolton, former National Security Advisor, former ambassador to

the United Nations, writing in Germany, in German, in a publication published in German

Switzerland. America remains irreplaceable. It's a controversial title. Easy to agree.

John, how did we get here? Because your piece is very keen on the evolution of the world

order that we now support. What was the road here? Good evening, John.

Good evening. Well, I think too many people believe today in a very naive fashion that there

is a rules-based international order. It's sprang out of enlightenment somehow. What I

tried to show in this piece in the Swiss magazine, Weekly Magazine, but which has a good

readership among German-speaking peoples in Europe, was that whatever order we have was

created by America and its allies and their power in the post-1945 world. It was certainly

incomplete. We made a lot of mistakes, but it's not some risen spirit that gives this

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