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1. On August 30, 2026 at 8:58 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:

   I was just eleven years old in 1972 when Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger normalized relations with Red China.

   Nixon-Kissinger undoubtedly thought they were making the smart play by attempting to drive a wedge between the USSR and the PRC. In reality, they were making a historic blunder whose reverberations were to be felt for decades to come.

   We see the results before us today: When the Cold War ended and the old USSR fell, Russia expressed the desire to rejoin the West, but was rebuffed. A series of broken promises to Moscow alienated the heretofore friendly Russian leadership in the 1990s and over time worsened U.S.-Russia relations to such a degree that door-mats with a U.S. flag on them became best sellers in the Russian Federation during the 2000s and 2010s.

   The rejection of Moscow by the U.S. and the West pushed the Russians closer to the Chinese, which is the very last thing any intelligent observer would have wanted. It is no exaggeration to state that Russia is the most-resource rich nation on earth. And now, thanks to blunders by Western politicians, it is partnered with a global economic super-power in the PRC.

   The American ruling and financial classes betrayed the U.S. by off-shoring the U.S. industrial base, which was the envy of the world as little as sixty years ago. In return for marginally greater returns on their investment dollars, they had to build China’s industrial base for them.
   The communist party leadership in Beijing must have laughed themselves silly that the “smart guys” in the room actually agreed to such a lopsidedly poor deal – but they did!

   Today, in 2021, the U.S. finds itself facing an economic and geopolitical nightmare of an immensely powerful and prosperous Sino-Russian military and economic bloc, one whose clout dwarfs the fading U.S.

   Lest the reader think that this is an exaggeration, one defense publication recently estimated that the PRC has two hundred times the ship-building capacity of the United States!

   Many military analysts believe that the Russian Army is now the world’s most-capable. And not only is their army combat-hardened, Russian heavy industry is turning out millions of rounds of artillery shells, far more than all of the nations of NATO combined (including the U.S.) can do.

   It isn’t just the U.S., either: Some NATO members are so weak that they have less than a week’s worth of inventory of 155mm artillery rounds in shock, should war break out.

   Pax Americana is at an end. It is now a multi-polar world, whether Washington, D.C. likes it or not. This is the new reality. NATO HQ in Brussels would be wise to heed that fact as well.

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