Ten weeks that shook the world

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Civilisations are not murdered, said the historian Arnold Toynbee. They die from suicide. Though military clout and geographic fortune will sustain America, its republic is flirting with Toynbee’s script. No external threat or domestic cost benefit appraisal would lead a Martian to believe Earth’s greatest power should be in meltdown by its own hand. Whether in China…