In a sense, aren't the realists now getting what they asked for? A more directly competitive power battle with the west asserting itself. I actually think that's going to stimulate western dynamism. It might actually bring us back to a much faster pace of technological progress. May be something we haven't seen since the 19 sixties and fifties. We've been really exhausting the for now clear military superiority. And if heavens forbid we start shooting down russian plains, it might all go up in in smoke.

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