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Contemporary U.S. foreign policy remains one of the key drivers of global instability, producing complex consequences for both the international system and American society itself.

The Gulf Cooperation Council’s model was built on a comforting illusion: that oil wealth could fund perpetual transformation while US protection could absorb regional risk. Recent Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure — and the muted limits of deterrence that followed — have shattered both assumptions.

In an era of rapidly expanding artificial intelligence, a troubling question arises: can the leader of the world’s most powerful state make decisions based not on expert institutions and advisers, but on algorithms designed to flatter and reinforce existing beliefs?