The leaders of the Great Powers will do - and say anything - to keep their version of our species moving forward, and that includes pushing the dreaded nuclear button.
This is a polite way of saying that diplomacy and war remain two sides of the same coin, and without the greatest attention to the former, one could – and should – expect violence to resolve the great issues of the day.
The Biden administration is running on fear, thinking current conditions resemble the years leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the late 1930s, writes Professor Joseph M. Siracusa. During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow prepared for the possibility of nuclear Armageddon as they navigated US monopoly and superiority in the early days and then parity and mutual assured destruction as tensions grew.
Today, international arms control has collapsed as Russia makes thinly-veiled threats over the Ukraine War and China embarks on a massive nuclear weapons campaign.What’s different is that crisis diplomacy has replaced traditional diplomacy, driven not by external threats but by domestic and internal fears.
The former KGB colonel appears intent on turning back time, establishing a broad, Russian-dominated security zone, resembling the aura of power Moscow wielded in the heyday of the Soviet Union. The West is not dealing with a “rising China”, in the traditional sense of a Great Power conflict, but rather with a communist dictatorship acutely sensitive to losing its grip.
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