What If We Picked On Somebody Our Own Size?
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Russia and China don’t have much truck with the indispensable nation’s global designs. They are happy to let us throw away dollars and lives in Islamic snake pits, but they are the big kids on their own blocks and don’t cotton to an interloper telling them what to do. Maps and history are anathema to most Americans, including its politicians, but if they looked at the former or knew any of the latter, they might realize that both nations are geographically vulnerable to invasion and have been invaded countless times throughout their long histories. Russia and China have real armies, navies, air forces, and nuclear arsenals: their citizens do not have to blow themselves up to get the world’s attention. They are also proficient in the newer forms—cyberwar, espionage, sabotage, intelligence, and subversion—of mankind’s oldest sport, and are challenging us to pick on somebody our own size.
Russia and China don’t have much truck with the indispensable nation’s global designs. They are happy to let us throw away dollars and lives in Islamic snake pits, but they are the big kids on their own blocks and don’t cotton to an interloper telling them what to do. Maps and history are anathema to most Americans, including its politicians, but if they looked at the former or knew any of the latter, they might realize that both nations are geographically vulnerable to invasion and have been invaded countless times throughout their long histories. Russia and China have real armies, navies, air forces, and nuclear arsenals: their citizens do not have to blow themselves up to get the world’s attention. They are also proficient in the newer forms—cyberwar, espionage, sabotage, intelligence, and subversion—of mankind’s oldest sport, and are challenging us to pick on somebody our own size.
