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These partnerships enabled democracy to thrive and the free-world economy to flourish, and they formed the foundation upon which the liberal world order was built. By the 1990s, the Western victory over the Soviet Union had inaugurated a post-Cold War era of great-power peace and democratic dominance.

Fuck I hate liberals so much. Indonesia? Vietnam? Iran? Lebanon? The Cold War wasn't won peacefully or democratically. 🙄

U.S. military spending is nearly as low, as a percentage of gross domestic product, as it has been at any time since World War II.

gfdi the US spends far more than any other country, fuck off fuck off fuck ooooofffff

World Wars Episode I: The Eurasian Menace

Episode II: Attack of the Drones

Episode III: Revenge of the BRICS

Episode IV: A New Cope

Episode V: The (American) Empire Strikes Back

The United States has a post-Cold War military in a pre-world war world. It should be devoting about 5 percent of GDP to defense — significantly more than its current 3 percent.

A country or coalition that mastered Eurasia would become a global menace, for it would possess the power to make even the most distant democracies insecure. So, aspiring conquerors would lunge for Eurasian hegemony, while offshore powers — and the vulnerable states situated along Eurasia’s edges — would fight to preserve their freedoms by keeping the supercontinent divided.

This passage is the crux of the article. Really telling what the intent of the author is with that last sentence. Yankees have always been nervous about the prospect of a united Asia/Europe, which is exactly what the "supercontinent" was heading towards before the Ukraine situation. Europe, Russia, India and China together posses industry, population and resources that absolutely dwarf what America possess.

author is "Hal Brands":

Wikipedia

Hal Brands (born 1983) is an American political scientist and scholar of U.S. foreign policy. He is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

it rocks how you open the newspaper now and get transported 150 years back in time to some victorian ass racism

...the US should begin its response preparations

Always on the defense, of course - just preparing for our pre-emptive retaliation. We have to be ready to respond in an instant, even before our opponent moves!

Are we the baddies

So a preemptive strike against DC is called for, Hal?

It's the top article in the Opinions section.

until Europeans aren't white anymore

Orientalism hours.

Patrick Star writes an OpEd for WaPo

Ahaha they're doing heartland theory in Wapo? Interesting

I'm sorry, the what?

They also demonstrated that the cycle of Eurasian conflict could be broken only by the United States.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

You could probably make a game, "Washington Post article title or British propaganda poster slogan from the Crimean War?"