Everything began with Washington’s limited wars, and in the end, everything will revolve around them as well. And what followed is a failure of “deterrence,” with deterrence amounting to stopping others from doing what they wish to do. Washington's core objective for decades has been to stop others from doing what they want to do. … Continue reading The Problems of Limited War
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Atomic Blackmail
In turn, the change or the shift in the global balance of power between Russia and the United States has led to an unexpected rise in tensions between the two sides. For instance, the war in Ukraine – as opposed to watering down and transitioning to an end or a resolution – has only escalated in recent … Continue reading Atomic Blackmail
The Dilemma of American Security
The balance of power also undermines conventional thinking in terms of how the Western capitalist model of what is none other than extraction and exclusion renders the West superior over all others. The fact of the matter is that the East can also develop without having to resort to the Western capitalist model of extraction … Continue reading The Dilemma of American Security
The Russian Enigma
And when brought altogether and converged with one another, the aforementioned “master trends” of our day and age ultimately lead to a basic shift in the global balance of power in favor of the East, particularly in favor of Russia and China. What then compounds the enigma or the dilemma or challenge of the balance of power … Continue reading The Russian Enigma
Just-Surmounted Colonial Tutelage
In short, one side needs renewal because it has gone through a cheapening and a devaluation of sorts and has thus become meaningless and superfluous, while the other side is emerging and rising because of its newfound moral and strategic purpose. And after having one side impose an international order based on colonialism for centuries, … Continue reading Just-Surmounted Colonial Tutelage
Adam A. Azim 