The Ukraine Temptation
Biden Should Resist Calls to Fight a New Cold War
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April 12, 2022
Another cool head? Or is there some reflection going on? Is Ukraine winning? Would it be too lame too late?
In other words the U.S. can't and should not be able to have the foolish, arrogant strategy of being everywhere and anywhere to defend it's PRIMACY not interest because it'll end up without defending nothing.
The U.S. share of global economy is no longer at 27% as it was in the 1950's but currently stand based on the 2020 figure at 16% and falling while China and Russia are at a combined 22% which is set to increase in the case of China. Which tells us a vivid picture that economic power coupled with military power are what makes a country a true superior power. Having a superior military power with a dwindling economy will not be able to sustain that martial advantage.
I hope that U.S. leadership adopt the Hal Brand suggestion of raising it's military spending of percentage to GDP ration from the current 3.2% to 5% and more. I want the U.S. to literally forfeit it's position in globalization to let China strengthen, expands it's foot print in the world with BRI, along with many of the key trade agreements it signed such as RECP, and soon TPP.
The arrogance of the current American strategic leadership back by their useless cadres of think tanks that produce nothing but the persistent belief in American hyper dominance, and supremacy despite the changing conditions on the ground will be their undoing. And no amount of China bashing and anti-China wishful thinking will change that trajectory if the U.S. leadership keeps charging ahead like a bull in a China shop approach with their so-called strategy against China.