This is such a Pollyanna assessment of Western intentions, capabilities, coordination, and strategy. The West is not some bumbling hapless doofus without any Machiavellianism or psychopathy while they chase cars in the street and negligently count their money.
Bill Clinton was pursuing NATO’s inclusion of Ukraine as far back as 1992. Bush 2 set a strategic plan for West Asia and Obama kept it going - a 16-year (minimum) strategic initiative. The US invaded Vietnam because it understand the strategic landscape and how the West played it’s part. The US converted Korea and Taiwan into performative democracies at the same time the British were doing it Hong Kong. Because the West has a collective understanding of empire, a collective understanding of their role in global empire, and a collective will to maintain that empire.
What the author assumes is strategic blindness is, in fact, strategic failure. The West is not failing to do strategy - the West’s strategies are failing. And not because the West is bad at strategy, but because the strategic room for empire is being closed by the anti-imperialist movement over the last century.
This is such a Pollyanna assessment of Western intentions, capabilities, coordination, and strategy. The West is not some bumbling hapless doofus without any Machiavellianism or psychopathy while they chase cars in the street and negligently count their money.
Bill Clinton was pursuing NATO’s inclusion of Ukraine as far back as 1992. Bush 2 set a strategic plan for West Asia and Obama kept it going - a 16-year (minimum) strategic initiative. The US invaded Vietnam because it understand the strategic landscape and how the West played it’s part. The US converted Korea and Taiwan into performative democracies at the same time the British were doing it Hong Kong. Because the West has a collective understanding of empire, a collective understanding of their role in global empire, and a collective will to maintain that empire.
What the author assumes is strategic blindness is, in fact, strategic failure. The West is not failing to do strategy - the West’s strategies are failing. And not because the West is bad at strategy, but because the strategic room for empire is being closed by the anti-imperialist movement over the last century.
Also that is some McCarthy ass title with its appeal to xenophobia and reducing “the Russians” to this malevolent faceless horde of evil.