The Thucydides Trap is a political theory stating that when a rapidly rising power threatens to displace an established ruling power, the resulting structural tension often leads to a catastrophic, unintended war. It is most famously used by Xi, to describe modern U.S.-China relations, where China is the rising power and the United States is the ruling power.
The Greek Story: Athens vs. Sparta
The term was coined by American political scientist Graham Allison, who drew inspiration from the ancient Greek historian Thucydides and his account of the History of the Peloponnesian War.I n the 5th century BC, the Greek world was dominated by two mega-powers: Sparta, the established hegemon with the most formidable land army, and Athens, an emerging power experiencing a meteoric rise thanks to its booming naval empire.
As Athenian power, wealth, and influence grew aggressively, Sparta became paralyzed by anxiety that it would lose its top position. Regarding the cause of the resulting devastating 27-year war, Thucydides famously wrote:
"What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta."
The Core Lessons In the classical Greek story, are that it was a lethal combination of structural shifting, unyielding pride, fear of the unknown, and a web of stubborn alliances that trapped both nations in an avoidable war.
However, modern historians and Allison emphasize that the "trap" is meant to serve as a warning rather than an absolute prophecy.
The problem is this: Marxist-Leninism, and its various variations, was pushed and promoted by Elite wannabe rulers under the principle of divide and conquer. They supported and sponsored Mao, to give rise to a communist China.
This is the application of Satanic Marxist theory, based on Hegel's dialectic, that development comes through conflict. In Hegel's idea, all progress occurs via conflict. Thesis exists, then anti-thesis arises, conflicts with the thesis to create the synthesis. Conflict >>>> Development (progress)
This is the basis for communism, Marxism and the Woke ideology.
But, its a lie. It's the ultimate inversion of the Truth. In God's creation, all things have a complementary partner (not really an opposite) and it is cooperation between those partners centering on a common purpose, that leads to existence and development.
Type one: internal (invisible) and external (visible): Our spirit/mind has a physical vehicle, the flesh (our body). Invisible laws (the laws physics, chemistry, etc) manifest on various levels, such as atoms and molecules, which are visible tangible forms of energy. Its the cooperation between our spirit and our flesh that allows us to exist, alive, in the universe. All matter exists through the invisible laws of physics, etc, directing tangible forms of energy.
Another type of complementary partnership also exists: + and -; male and female. Men and women enter into a relationship and together form a family, giving life to a new generation. Healthy families exist on the basis of the love between a man and a woman. Atoms and molecules exist through the interaction between a positive charge nucleus (+) and negatively charged electrons (-).
The evil world always wants to frame reality as unavoidable conflict, but in God's world, harmonious cooperation is what leads to existence and development.
And Xi, here, specifically quote the satanic framework presented by the "Thucydides Trap" and asks, "Can China and the USA avoid this?"
And, everything Trump is doing is to remove the USA and the world from the satanic Marxist model, where conflict is inevitable and one side MUST lose when the other side wins, and is pushing the USA and the world towards a world of mutual cooperation, where both sides progress together and benefit from their relationship.
Which is the basis for the idea of the Art of the Deal. If Marx or the satanic elites wrote a book, it would be the Art of Conflict.
Allison's premise that the real dynamic is between rising power and ruling power is pure Hegelian dialectic. And, its a very deceitful, but potent, lie.