if you study European history a little, you will automatically come across the English motto: keep the Germans down and the Russians out. this has been the exact policy for several centuries
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I do not see how that is relevant to the current global power dynamics. Europe is no longer a significant player. US and China are the modern centres of power and the contest is between them.
You seem unable to respond ton the contemporary reality as it was reported in The New Yorker and has since unfolded.
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