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| Play the Russia Card: "US should negotiate a non-aggression and partial-cooperation agreement with Russia to keep it out of China's embrace" |
| 2019-11-15 |
| By Conrad Black [NationalReview] A Post-Post-Cold-War NATO: The U.S.-led alliance has been very successful for most of a century. Now what? |
| Posted by:Lex |
| #4 Intriguing: With the break-up of the USSR and the collapse of international Communism, the principal strategic danger, which President Trump intuitively perceives but his opponents are too obtuse or malicious to grasp (and so they have muddied the domestic political waters), is that Russia, if faced down into the arms of China, could agree to rent a chunk of Siberia on a royalty arrangement to China to be exploited by surplus Chinese manpower. The fusion of resource-rich Siberia with Chinese manpower and exploitive skills would make poor and overpopulated China a full-scale rival to the United States. NATO (i.e. the U.S.) should negotiate a non-aggression and partial-cooperation agreement with Russia to keep it out of the embrace of China. The West can certainly be a more attractive dancing partner for Russia than China, and it should reinforce relations with India and subtly encourage the commercial and strategic independence of the Far Eastern, South Asian, and Australasian neighbors of China, all while managing Sino-American relations carefully. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-15 14:34 |
| #3 The Chinese are still unhappy about the Treaty of Aigun(1858) because what was once part of the Middle Kingdom is always and forever property of the Middle Kingdom. |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-11-15 13:17 |
| #2 Giving them bases in Syria is a good start. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-11-15 11:40 |
| #1 1. Demilitarize Ukraine and agree that it shall be perpetually neutral the way Finland and Austria were during the Cold War. Pledge of no NATO or EU membership in exchange for withdrawal of little green men from Eastern Ukraine. 2. Create a Far East Cooperation Agreement with joint US-Russian-Japanese training exercises off of Vladivostok. 3. Sign a new treaty to replace the INF we pulled out of. 4. Re-open consulates and relax sanctions in exchange for Russian cooperation & progress on points #1-3. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-15 11:03 |