Eurasia: A Geo-political re-alignment

[David Guyatt]

If you were China and/or Russia how would you combat American machinations in those states?

Good question. I think the target of these machinations is the Russian populace. Wear them down and you get in more favorable government. This is done by an enemy that has unlimited resources as long as it can keep printing money and forcing others to take it. The beliefs that the Empire is about to collapse are mostly wishful thinking IMO.

I see Russia trying to play the rope-a-dope strategy achieve its economic ends in concert with China, etc.

Yup, the empire is not going to collapse anytime soon -- the best we can hope for is that over time it becomes increasingly less significant as other economic systems take shape. Other reserve currencies would be a good idea to combat the US dollar.

But destabalizing/disrupting nations between China and Russia and other destinations where the new silk road rail links transit would be, I think, a favoured way of bringing Chinese trade to a juddering halt, thus making them rely again on sea routes that the US controls.