"the world's two most populous nations uniting with the Russian nuclear superpower in the emerging bloc of nations who are rejecting absorption into the US-centralized power structure would be disastrous for the empire"
and short of catastrophic war it *will* happen. It's about as inevitable as gravity. That's what's so weird and creepy and inexplicable about all this, it's not just that these people are evil, it's that they seem utterly stuck in a strategy from 50 years ago
"the world's two most populous nations uniting with the Russian nuclear superpower in the emerging bloc of nations who are rejecting absorption into the US-centralized power structure would be disastrous for the empire"
and short of catastrophic war it *will* happen. It's about as inevitable as gravity. That's what's so weird and creepy and inexplicable about all this, it's not just that these people are evil, it's that they seem utterly stuck in a strategy from 50 years ago