Originally Posted by
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No, I’m saying that unless the US is seen as one that would do something in a conventional war to thwart another nuclear power from attacking another country, that countries like China and Russia are bound to do it. See Crimea 2014 and the rest of Ukraine today. That’s the basic premise of the stability-instability paradox. Don’t they teach this stuff in aviation colleges?
That's just a fancy term for
Deterrence. And if the US withdraws into an isolationist position, then we are no longer a deterring presence on the world stage.
Everyone complains about the US being the World Police, but they fail to imagine what the world would look like without us at the head of the table. Or
who would fill that role when we leave.