Wunkerful, I appreciate your attempt at snappy, comedic writing but it sounds a bit too much like Beavis and Butthead in its adolescent put downs and cheap anal comedy.
Some of what you said is a tad incomprehensible. You said that Russia and China are in it for survival, but you never defined it, i.e., what are they in only for survival. (Besides, we all want to survive) You said China and Russia don't trust each other, but who ever imagined that they did. Churchill and Stalin did not trust each other, but their mutual suspicions did not stop them from being allies. As Charles DeGaul once said, nations do not have friends; they have interests.
Also China And Russia and India are not states that are simply up "each other's ass," as you so colorfully imagine it. Rather, a distinct dynamic has existed for about 60 years: India tended to tilt to Russia, Pakistan tended to tilt to China, and in more recent decades Pakistan tended to tilt toward China and America.
Also, you missed the central thesis of the post: I proposed that very often an aggressive, patriotic posture, in which America projects strength and power and uses military force paradoxically often helps America's enemies. I cited 3 specific examples.
The notion that it might be hard for America to take on russia and China at the same time was wholly secondary to the discussion.
Wunkerful, I appreciate your attempt at snappy, comedic writing but it sounds a bit too much like Beavis and Butthead in its adolescent put downs and cheap anal comedy.
Some of what you said is a tad incomprehensible. You said that Russia and China are in it for survival, but you never defined it, i.e., what are they in only for survival. (Besides, we all want to survive) You said China and Russia don't trust each other, but who ever imagined that they did. Churchill and Stalin did not trust each other, but their mutual suspicions did not stop them from being allies. As Charles DeGaul once said, nations do not have friends; they have interests.
Also China And Russia and India are not states that are simply up "each other's ass," as you so colorfully imagine it. Rather, a distinct dynamic has existed for about 60 years: India tended to tilt to Russia, Pakistan tended to tilt to China, and in more recent decades Pakistan tended to tilt toward China and America.
Also, you missed the central thesis of the post: I proposed that very often an aggressive, patriotic posture, in which America projects strength and power and uses military force paradoxically often helps America's enemies. I cited 3 specific examples.
The notion that it might be hard for America to take on russia and China at the same time was wholly secondary to the discussion.