A French Philosopher's Take on America's Role in the World

Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy talks about his new book, The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World (Henry Holt and Co. 2019).

"We have an alliance of five kings who are very different but who are aligned with the simple goal of crushing their own people, of weakening America and the West and promoting an assault of civilization," says @BHL on the rise of Russia, China, Turkey, Iran and radical Islamism.

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"For me, in America, what is sad, is that you have the worst Right you’ve ever had, this is Trump, and you sometimes you have the worst Left that you could have, because you have radicalization of the Left which is not good," says @BHL, on a "Jeremy Corbynization" in the U.S.

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