tupac chopra
Veteran Member
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#Opinions_concerning_foreign_policy
I don't think even one year ago Russia could have been said to be a hostile power but a lot has changed in a year. Putin has been open about how the American war machine might be stopped through bringing down the USD, and he has begun to make good on his word in that regard.
China (now the worlds largest economy) has formed a very deep strategic alliance with Russia late last year too, and recently rebuked the United States over Ukraine.
What should or could America do? Keep pursuing it's goals that don't seem to have changed much to prevent anyone power arising that "necons" might think is hostile or...?
What other ideas are there apart from those of the neocons?
"Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power."
I don't think even one year ago Russia could have been said to be a hostile power but a lot has changed in a year. Putin has been open about how the American war machine might be stopped through bringing down the USD, and he has begun to make good on his word in that regard.
China (now the worlds largest economy) has formed a very deep strategic alliance with Russia late last year too, and recently rebuked the United States over Ukraine.
What should or could America do? Keep pursuing it's goals that don't seem to have changed much to prevent anyone power arising that "necons" might think is hostile or...?
What other ideas are there apart from those of the neocons?