Sorry to be picky, but the use of "barely" puts this phrase in the realm of a double negative, which may or may not have been intentional. I'm having trouble processing this phrase, but double negatives usually do this for me.

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This essay makes an important point in that there is so much hypocrisy to today's geopolitics. One misadventure creates the conditions for another misadventure.

We need to new way.