Grant's tragedy has always been to prevent the rise of a pure competitor who can dominate their region and then challenge us for global hegeminy. There's only one country in the world that can do that right now to us, which is china. So the pivot to asia, as obamas said, was fundamentally correct, but we have not fallen through and executed it. Now our attention is distracted and bogged down by what's happening in europe. I would seek a negotiated settlement to this war. Create a strong alliance of countries in east asia who are threatened by ch China. They have folks for the rain man, david sax the dictator chmot, polyhopate