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A global superpower like America can lose its edge in many ways — to outside enemies, to internal division, or even by sabotaging itself. Sabotage is what just happened when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suddenly canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine research.