Following his father's passing, Mojtaba Khamenei issues a fierce warning to the US and draws strict red lines for domestic critics to ensure national unity.
I once heard it described as “most countries have states, the US has administrations”. Most other countries try to build their foreign policy on national consensus, the US builds foreign policy on the whims of a short term monarch so it can swerve widely every 4 years.
The US is a fusion of personal and institutional rulership: On one hand, policy and influence depends on your personal relationship to the ruler. On the other, the person holding that office of “ruler” is swapped our frequently, so lasting personal commitments are hard to establish.
The good solution would be to fix the “personal” part somehow. Right now, it’s looking more like they’re trying to abolish the “institutional” part.
I once heard it described as “most countries have states, the US has administrations”. Most other countries try to build their foreign policy on national consensus, the US builds foreign policy on the whims of a short term monarch so it can swerve widely every 4 years.
Shouts out to the prevailing legal interpretations of the last century, which have given rise to the imperial presidency. /s
The US is a fusion of personal and institutional rulership: On one hand, policy and influence depends on your personal relationship to the ruler. On the other, the person holding that office of “ruler” is swapped our frequently, so lasting personal commitments are hard to establish.
The good solution would be to fix the “personal” part somehow. Right now, it’s looking more like they’re trying to abolish the “institutional” part.