Somebody’s getting rich off all this.
But we are all being manipulated Europe’s aircraft carriers (Italy and France) in Pacific waters in the last year.
The UK’s carrier “Prince of Wales” headed there.
German and Canadian warships transit the Taiwan Strait as well as American ones.
It’s about China when I was younger inside the beltway thinking was China would be the problem by this time.
Donald Trump has positioned his words-actions on China to meet the long-term thinking and planning inside the beltway.
Europe can wear the “Ukraine Mask” to justify diverting spending away from foreign aid and social programs but its about confronting China in the end.
And the “confront China” thing is totally up in the air.
Lets say the locals in East Asia are not taking this Russia stuff too well.
If Trump so wants to surrender to a decrepit Russia, what happens when its 3:00am and its China this time? Maybe its better to pre-surrender to China instead of hoping on the weak US reed.