1127: As the US, the EU and China slip from grace. Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic.
Image: Desiccation in China: camel pulling cart, Gobi Desert Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; Gregory R Copley, The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re: The US has continued its slide from grace: in a helter-skelter fashion. Is seen as being of questionable resolve and ability to address its internal preoccupation, one year out of four it ignores the world; the only great power in history spending a quarter of its time ignoring the world. Strategic decline, will have increasing less cash to spend on dominating the global envt. Trump put the US on a confrontation course with the Communist Party of China, which [the CCP] is in great doubt for an array of factors—cash, food, shortage, water shortage—was in danger of abandoning its ___. The US 3 Nov election gave the CCP a new lease on life. What this will all come to is not clear. China wants to reduce the military differential between the two countries; but both are in a [phase of] reduction. My money is on hte the US, if we don’t blow it. “Dead Men Walking, Dead Men Waking.” – unless the EU collapses, and we see a resurgence of [small states]. Italy, others, and even France, seem to be thinking of leaving the EU. Brussels has official power, but without Germany is nothing. Creating a new Soviet Union; as the head of Czech Republic said, “We didn't leave one Soviet Union in order to join another one.” EU was designed to contain Germany’s [aggression]; instead, just rechanneled expansionism via the currency. PRC is currently testing the Biden administration, with a carrier in the South China Sea—no response from Biden: “probing our adversary to the point of contact.” Trump had the PRC on the run; now, PRC has Biden on the run (with documentation on the Biden family, for example). Food, water, and energy shortages in China: PRC is still using Mickey Mouse schemes to evade sanctions on Iranian oil; PRC has run out of cash, is in tr0uble. PRC relying on the US being not a cornerstone of any pushback. However, the Quad states are pushing back, along with _____. EU cannot deal with a Russian threat just now, although Russia isn't in a good position to threaten; what it wants is a stable relation and to control the EU by the flow gas and oil.