I would be very interested in your reaction.
It was a thread entitled “Grand Strategy comes to the Oil Patch”
The part I found most intriguing was the following statement:
“Finally, Russia is the key because it is possible to do business with a rational thug such as Vladimir Putin while in China the elites will find themselves increasingly constrained by events involving upheavals of hundreds of millions of people.”
The complex regional dynamics and pressure points that you describe are a bit over my head, or at least I feel ill equipped to form a strategy out of it all. The best I can do is be duly impressed by the seriousness of the problems we face.
That single point, however, about the Chinese leaders “riding a tiger that they can’t get off of” makes a lot of sense to me - perhaps the beginning of a broad strategy that I can use as a guide when observing how Trump’s foriegn policy unfolds.
Up until now, I’ve had to content myself with the principle of “peace through strength”, which although light years ahead of any Obama “strategy”, is only a slogan - so I appreciate your summary.