Gee... Use history as a guide to our policy decisions.
What a radical idea. /S
China is now unified and within it reside about half the population of Asia. Like the Middle Kingdom before it ,it views itself and the dominant, central power of Asia. Yet like the Middle Kingdom it has its own inherent problems and meets a natural formidable resistance from other Asians when it overextends itself. Frankly now as then ,it will be up to the Asians themselves to work out a reasonable consensus. American involvement is foolish. It is not likely to be effective and historically does nothing for the security of the American people but inevitably creates long term bitter enemies and resentments.
I was hoping Trump would address this issue. China is rising power and we need to address the issue
Every day, Trump seems to find a new way to impress me. I’m am not tired of winning yet. If the US survives as a Republic, it will largely be Trump’s doing.
Dems want to destroy history - US civil war, 100+ years of Democratic position on slavery and blacks, failure of communist states, Islamic invasions, etc.
Trump wants to learn from it.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
Of interest.
We need to get this China stuff right.
It is unlikely that we’ll be destroyed from without, but more likely we’ll be destroyed by the rot from within.
A balance needs to be struck between treasonously accelerating China’s rise (Clinton most favored nation status, Loral Aerospace & military tech) and aggressively challenging them in areas where it would make sense to leave them alone.
After the "Those guys are weak and will never fight Us" scenario (Japan in 1941), the "We must react to the emerging threat" scenario is probably the leading cause of wars, from the Peloponnesian War, throughout Roman history, up to Hitler and Barbarosa.
Better to consult history than his kid like Jimmah did.
I thought everyone in the Trump Administration were clowns, stupid, unable to read and wouldn’t even know what a Greek classic was.
Here's a hint; buy off the war lords and GTFO.
I'm afraid they won't get much out of him, even if they do dig him up.
“Eeyew, history is so, like, last yee-are.”
I have a number of problems with the “Thucydides Trap”, but the largest is that Athens wasn’t an “emerging power” prior to the Peloponnesian War, it was an established power, therefore Spartan opposition to Athens didn’t come about during the Athenian rise, but subsequent to it.
OTOH, it seems to me that in the face of Athenian expansion, Sparta was the declining power, which may have motivated Spartan adventurism. The war itself was won by Sparta more from Athenian mistakes than any specific Spartan strategic vision.
So if there’s any lesson it would be that the dangers facing the US come from weakness and not strength, a lesson was better directed at Obama, not Trump.