Posted on 12/31/2022 10:31:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It is folly to believe that the US should engage in a repeat of the Cold War with the rising world power that is China, reflecting the maxim that “Generals always fight the last war.” That implies that the current military strategy focuses too much on what happened before rather than what will happen next. Rather than repeating the Cold War, the US should rethink how it views its place in the world and work to partner with China on high-priority issues that affect both countries, like nuclear weapons, trade policies, natural resources, economics, etc. This necessarily requires that the US and China negotiate and live up to expected behaviors and policies as well as partnering in combating global threats that both countries face.
The US-Soviet Cold War involved two world powers of relatively equal military might who also had significant access to natural resources and technology, although the US enjoyed a significant lead on the technology side. The key to the US success in the Cold War was that the US economy was far stronger than the Soviet economy due to the Soviets’ fundamentally flawed central economic management. In the end, the US could outspend the USSR in everything from technology and military to supporting allies with various forms of foreign aid—including sending shiploads of wheat to the Soviets.
Most significantly, after WW2, US forces occupied key war-torn nations in Europe and Asia and were driven to adopt robust western forms of political and economic organization. Soviet dominance over Eastern European countries after WW2, all of which followed communist doctrines, did not result in similarly growing and powerful economies. Governments dominated by the Soviets were also far from desirable.
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Nothing like surrender to make things better.
Where do find these people?
Cowardice is no solution to aggression.
Folly. Oh my.
This guy must have important opinions.
any “partnership” with the communist chinese will be the old, “things will go along just greay, if we do things my way.”
no no no!
They’ve apparently discovered American Thinker as a vehicle.
Nothing like surrender to make things better. Where do find these people?
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Under the same rock that covers those who want to surrender Ukraine.
Rather than repeating the Cold War, the US should rethink how it views its place in the world and work to partner with China on high-priority issues that affect both countries, like nuclear weapons, trade policies, natural resources, economics, etc.
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Sure.....”partner” with the Chinese like we “partnered” with the South Vietnamese, the Afghans, Stalin and Pakistani’s to name just a few.
It is pure idiocy to believe you can “partner” with a communist dictator.
Sure thing because China is so good at keeping their agreements
He probably friends with Scott Ritter
The ONLY war we’ve won since WWII was the cold war.
I’m OK with a cold war with China.
Nothing like surrender to make things better.
Where do find these people?
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In the CCP payday line.
Full stop.
“Under the same rock that covers those who want to surrender Ukraine.”
This author is like you. Pro-Putin, pro-Chicom.
“partnering” with China is a really stupid idea. Then again, we are in no position to fight a cold war, much less a hot one.
Surrendering to Stalin would have gone better for us than surrendering to the CCP.
WE’RE GOING TO NEED TO START KILLING A LOT OF DEVIANTS
So be it.
Better them than our own being massacred by them.
No offense, but South Vietnam was our ally. Maybe you meant North Vietnam.
People like to use the “existential” word.
If there were a war between China and the US, both would be in existence at the end. Therefore…it’s not existential.
China must get control of the Worlds Reserve Currency and a hot war would guarantee it since the Dems have bankrupted America.
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