No longer world's ‘policeman,' US must coexist with China, Russia
China understands that if Russia is ever conquered by the West, it will be next, and thus these two nations have been brought ever closer to one another as allies fighting their common enemy: the United States.
Like Gulliver and the Lilliputians, America cannot control the entire world. Since 1999, the world has been in an imbalance as the United States has sought to assert its hegemony in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, to great consternation of the local affected peoples. America has grown much poorer in the process, with costly warmongering abroad at a time when domestic problems and division have dramatically grown.
America should not fight the emergence of Russia and China. Instead of squandering much blood and treasure in preventing this, the United States should reset relations with these emerging superpowers and create a model of shared governance and coexistence that will spare humanity from World War III.
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China understands that if Russia is ever conquered by the West, it will be next, and thus these two nations have been brought ever closer to one another as allies fighting their common enemy: the United States. Like Gulliver and the Lilliputians, America cannot control the entire world. Since 1999, the world has been in an imbalance as the United States has sought to assert its hegemony in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, to great consternation of the local affected peoples. America has grown much poorer in the process, with costly warmongering abroad at a time when domestic problems and division have dramatically grown. America should not fight the emergence of Russia and China. Instead of squandering much blood and treasure in preventing this, the United States should reset relations with these emerging superpowers and create a model of shared governance and coexistence that will spare humanity from World War III. Advertisement Michael Pravica Henderson, Nev.
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