US vs. Big Powers

This segment delves into the United States' strategic purpose of maintaining global dominance, offering insights into the country's attitude towards other big powers, such as Russia and China.

And for that reason and that reason alone or sufficiently, the US would oppose Russia, just like the US opposes China. Now, of course, maybe people listening to this or say, that's crazy. We oppose China because of all the terrible things they do. Or we oppose Russia because of all of the terrible things they do. I would take a different view of this, which is we make up stories about why we oppose big powers. But the basic reason we oppose big powers is that they are big. They are an affront to our desire for what the political scientists in a fancy word call primacy or call hegemony or call full spectrum dominance. In other words, Russia is an affront to our ability to dictate circumstances.