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How should the US manage Russia? After a week of interesting conversations in Russia: trust is irreparably broken and Russia has become toxic in American politics, but surely pushing it towards China is not smart politics for the US. How to square that circle?
In other words: a smarter strategy would consist of finding a role for Russia in the Eurasian balance of power while preserving the ability to force it to respect that balance. But is there anyone in US politics let alone in the administration defending this strategy?
Brzezinski by the way is uncharacteristically undiscerning on this question
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Since it became a world power around 1900 US had a single, permanent strategic goal: prevent a single power from controlling the whole of Eurasia
Interestingly the first half century the danger came from Europe. Thus the US actively prevented European powers from gobbling up China. And then it allied itself with the Soviet Union to prevent Nazi Germany from controlling Ukraine, the Caucasus and ultimately India
The second half century the danger was Russia. Thus the US built up Europe and China as bulwarks against the Soviet Union
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Do people still remember when and why people like Wilders, Le Pen, Strache, Orban began to be called populists? The term “radicals” would be much more accurate
What unites them is the desire to overturn the ruling values, which we may call late Western liberal values. On immigration, multiculturalism, world politics even architecture as with the Dutch gentleman whose name I momentarily forget
In Europe I continue to argue they have limited room. But outside Europe it’s a different game. Erdogan succeeded spectacularly in doing that, before everyone else. Congress in India is already moving. That value constellation is becoming more parochial
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I will continue to argue that there is and there will be no new Cold War between US and China. The difference is not so much the integration between the two countries, that is a symptom
The difference is that US and Soviet Union existed in direct contradiction to each other. Each was the negation of the other. They existed on the same plane
The US and China exist on different planes. They are incommensurable and therefore cannot be in direct contradiction. There will be a struggle for supremacy, but why should each of them desire the final destruction of the other?
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