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Some observers remain supremely confident that Washington’s world order can survive the inexorable erosion of its global power.

He leaned on that identity — or, as he put it, “my story of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who … shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to” — as a symbol of the nation’s inexorable progress.

Yet despite his inexorable rise, Kerr could walk down Princes Street in his hometown of Edinburgh and, probably, go largely unnoticed.

For Riefenstahl, the career stakes are huge, but less so for American audiences in the 21st century who know that Nazi Germany is on an inexorable path to war.

But he said the path to war was not "inexorable" if the UK re-established credible land forces to support its strategy of deterrence to avoid war.