Europe, NATO, and Russia aside, there is one glaring problem with this analysis. Communist China is NOT an ally of the US, nor will it ever be as long as the CCP is in control. Pullback of US presence in the East will be exploited by China. It is no secret that they want to destroy us. Not by direct confrontation, but through grey zone and asymmetric tactics. The CCP have dedicated billions over the years in order to accomplish this goal. They have built all kinds of shadow banking networks to circumvent the flow of money into criminal and inhuman operations such as human trafficking/slavery, international BRI debt traps, industrial scale forced organ harvesting, terrorist and activist networks, military and industrial espionage, drug trafficking, telecom fraud, cyber attacks, international sabotage, social media manipulation, etc.. The CCP knows no limits on what they are willing to do if they can get away with it.
All of this is not the work of just a few bad actors. These operations are coordinated, backed, protected, and often funded by the CCP. All of these ongoing efforts have been extremely accelerated under Xi Xinping after he consolidated power. In China right now, Xi alone is steering the ship and he alone gives the directives - Mao 2.0, one man absolute rule with no accountability. There is no "normalization" possible with any entity/person that is fixed upon your destruction. Anyone that thinks otherwise is naive.
Europe, NATO, and Russia aside, there is one glaring problem with this analysis. Communist China is NOT an ally of the US, nor will it ever be as long as the CCP is in control. Pullback of US presence in the East will be exploited by China. It is no secret that they want to destroy us. Not by direct confrontation, but through grey zone and asymmetric tactics. The CCP have dedicated billions over the years in order to accomplish this goal. They have built all kinds of shadow banking networks to circumvent the flow of money into criminal and inhuman operations such as human trafficking/slavery, international BRI debt traps, industrial scale forced organ harvesting, terrorist and activist networks, military and industrial espionage, drug trafficking, telecom fraud, cyber attacks, international sabotage, social media manipulation, etc.. The CCP knows no limits on what they are willing to do if they can get away with it.
All of this is not the work of just a few bad actors. These operations are coordinated, backed, protected, and often funded by the CCP. All of these ongoing efforts have been extremely accelerated under Xi Xinping after he consolidated power. In China right now, Xi alone is steering the ship and he alone gives the directives - Mao 2.0, one man absolute rule with no accountability. There is no "normalization" possible with any entity/person that is fixed upon your destruction. Anyone that thinks otherwise is naive.