Common sense would dictate that if you have two giant, neighboring, adversarial powers, you would want to place a rift between them.
One certainly wouldn’t want them getting closer together…
Yet this is exactly what the Biden administration has done with Russia and China. President Trump understood that we needed to be tough on China, friendly and cooperative with Russia, and firm on both, yet not antagonize either one in a way that would prompt war.
I would say that the brilliant individuals in the Biden administration should know better, but it’s hard to imagine that they don’t—what is happening today is by design.
How else could we explain their soft stance toward China, or the antagonism of Russia, an antagonism that has clearly pushed these two neighbors together?
Once upon a time, both of these nations shared a common political ideology under the iron curtain.
While the Soviet Union has since collapsed and communist China has adopted a hybrid of communism-capitalism, the two nations seem to have found common ground again: a hatred of the United States and the neoliberal world order.
This shared worldview and common enemy could have easily been avoided through the simplest form of statesmanship and statecraft.
I could bring a 5-year-old into this conversation right now and they would tell you that it wouldn’t do well to push China and Russia together, so how in the world have the ‘experts’ missed this?
Again, it’s hard, if not impossible to imagine that this was not by design.
Several days ago, Jake Sullivan told the world during a Georgetown University event that the post-Cold-war era was officially over.
Sullivan looked morose as he told the crowd what the United States must expect going forward in terms of challenges, goals, and security initiatives.
Here are just some perspectives on the shocking admission:
https://twitter.com/BRyvkin/status/1580757797620240385
Chinese propaganda outlets did not mince words and made no pretense to the obvious.
China and Russia are forming an alliance that will likely change the face of geopolitics and reshape the global world order in the coming years.
The arrogant ideology and strategy of the US in the post-Cold War era has forced China and Russia, which have historical enmity, into establishing a close partnership, said Di Dongsheng, a researcher at Renmin University of China. #ChinesePerspectives #Russia #US pic.twitter.com/uUQGC2DLPm
— China Says (@China_says) October 9, 2022
The Epoch Times relayed Sullivan’s ominous warning:
“We’re in the early years of a decisive decade,” Sullivan said at an event hosted by the Center for a New American Security and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington.
“The terms of our competition with the People’s Republic of China will be set.
The window of opportunity to deal with shared challenges like climate change will narrow drastically even as the intensity of those challenges grows.”
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News: The post-Cold War era is “definitively over,” Biden administration says in a new national security strategy. Says it will compete against China and Russia, even as it works with them on global threats like climate change.
Hmmn. Power. National interest.— 'Tunji Ajibade (Ph.D) (@AjibadeTunji) October 13, 2022
"…the post-Cold War era is definitively over and a competition is underway between the major powers to shape what comes next."https://t.co/0aFCGrp3n6
— Susie Colbourn (@secolbourn) October 12, 2022
Politico writes:
To take these challenges on, the administration said it will pursue “two simultaneous tracks: one where the U.S. works with “all countries and institutions” to solve the problem, and another where Washington aims to “deepen” ties to like-minded partners.
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