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Is Russia a Big Bully?
We do not want to abandon the field and leave it to be a world in which there are no principles except the powerful win. And if we leave the playing field, those who will occupy it will not serve our interests or our values very well at all. I would say to them, america is not an empire. We never coveted other people's territory. When we were at the height of our power, when we probably had 60 % of the world's g t p, we didn't even try to protect it. We created an international open trading system so that everybody could be prosperous. It matters because if we want to live in a world where big bully countries eat their small neighbors