“The decision making process of our elected officials has become so overwhelmingly influenced by special interests that it seems irrational.”
The collaboration or confrontation that will exist between America and China will be the most influential geopolitical story of the 21st century.
In a globalized world, geopolitics is ultimately a marketplace. And with wealth and influence shifting to emerging nations like Brazil, not even the ranking superpower has a monopoly anymore.
When a single war does not resolve an underlying geopolitical issue, it is refought until the issue is finally settled.
To understand war, you need to understand more than the reason a war was fought.
Fundamental geopolitical disputes are rarely amenable to reasonable compromise.