
John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulette
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
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Do You Think the Russia Plus China Poll Is a Threat to the US?
Do you think the Russia plus China poll, if indeed that becomes a kind of new center, is an existential threat to the US? I mean, do you think China with Russia attached to it in some way fundamentally changes the calculus and makes the US supremacy less likely? Not really. What concerns me more than anything is China dominating Asia. And there's another dimension to this that links the China threat with the Russia threat. If the United States were to lose the war in Ukraine, if the Russians were to prevail, it would be a devastating defeat for America's reputation. This would have consequences in all likelihood in East Asia.
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