The Third Path: Sovereignty Through Unity

The old order is dead. The nationalist right offers isolation. The institutional left offers nostalgia. There is a third path, and it begins with a paradox.

Let me tell you what I believe.

I believe the rules-based international order, as it was sold to us for three decades, is finished. Not declining. Not under pressure. Finished. I believe the people who tell you it can be restored are engaged in an act of nostalgia so deep it borders on self-harm.

I also believe the people who celebrate its death, the nati…