Carving up the world into spheres of interest won't end conflict.
The idea that Russia and America should carve up spheres of interest is silly and won't work.
The US is still hugely powerful, and Russia remains an acute threat to its neighbors and wider Europe. However, the idea that the world is moving from an international liberal order to a 19th-century-style order of great power spheres of influence is misguided: Washington is alienating the sphere it had, and Moscow increasingly looks like part of Beijing’s.
The only real beneficiary of current US and Russian policies is likely to be China.
Sure, Russia is effing up. It should make its peace with America and NATO to face the true threat to Russian sovereignty and territorial integrity--China. I keep hoping Russia will pull its head out of its Putin to do that.
So far we just keep getting the same old bloody stupidity from Moscow.
Yet I reject the idea that America is alienating Europe by pointing out their faltering freedoms. America is trying to shape Europe into countries worthy of being allies with whom we can fight those who would take that freedom away.
But ending conflict with spheres of influence is certainly counter-productive. Whether broadly or with just Russia.
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