The US: Superpower outage.

Also: the EU, Ukraine, terrorism, migration, Venezuela, and Guyana.

Uncle Sam's dream of conquest and carnage - caused by reading the Jingo newspapers, Udo Keppler, 1895, illustration in Puck (38:975), Library of Congress, Washington DC.

This is our last weekday dispatch for 2023. We’ll return to our daily schedule on 8 January otherwise stay tuned for our regular Not in Dispatches feature tomorrow.

UNITED STATES. Superpo…