Comments by "Sciagurrato" (@sciagurrato1831) on "John Mearsheimer: Why the US Can't Stop China's Rise" video.

@ZweiZwolf he’s come back from a trip to China at the end of last year — and perhaps is slightly more realistic. He says “cooperation is always subordinate to competition” — almost a quote from certain passages in the OT.
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@hyhhy JM is a well known pundit so any ambition he has at his age would better serve his posthumous legacy. He’s an old school “Pax Americana” advocate — who now realizes it’s a bit too late to respond to China in any substantive way — except for one exclusion. Until the veil of his “grand old man persona” is just one message: war, sooner better than later, with China. He has it both ways: (1) to be a wise senior pundit; and 2) to pass the baton of militarism to the younger generation (eg Rubio and the Chinahawks II (to be distinguished from Chinahawks I in Trump’s first term) which will happily start wars. A prior generation termed these non-serving politicians “chicken hawks”. JM can sit by comfortably by and disavow any war — but his coded message can’t be missed by DC insiders… “better confrontation than cooperation”.
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