Everybody should watch a few moments of the “Goat & Sheep Nations” video
TheGreenHornet presents in comment #125 above: it is apparently what underlays this OP writer’s perspectives on world politics...
It is truly pathetic and laughable Trumpster religious babble...
A country, even a great country like ours, can never succeed with a population enthralled by such madness.
Would that it were only a few USMB maniacs whose view of geo-politics are based on such nonsense. In truth, “Rapture” evangelicals and “Christian Zionists” like V.P Pence and Secretary of State Pompeo filled the outgoing administration. The godless narcissist conman Trump was not “the devil,” but he was certainly less competent than Putin or XiJinping. Sober and rational people all over the world worried about his leadership, even his sanity. But no matter that. We seem to have at least avoided a major war under Trump. He’s almost out the door now. Now we must worry about the Biden team — a much more “professional” and bureaucratic bunch of Wall Street and “security state” neo-cons.
Competent Western statesmen able to deal with China are hard to find these days. Remarkably, perhaps,
Japanese leaders have been handling their own security and far more important trade relations with China
a lot better than we have over the last four years. They have a lot more at stake than we do too, including troublesome border issues in the East China Sea over the Senkaku/Daoyu islands. They of course have some terrible history with China as well.
Here is an interview with liberal China expert, fluent Mandarin speaker, ex-Ambassador to China & former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd. Among other things Rudd contrasts the recent Japanese approach with that of the ruling Australian Conservative Party — and by implication with the still crazier U.S. approach: