Europe will eventually have to choose between the US and BRICS

... without outside interference, not to speak of foreign diktat. They don’t want to dominate Eurasia: they live there, it is their home – unlike the ever-restless “indispensable nation” thousands of miles away. In Ukraine, the main issue for Russia has been national security, not some “resurrection of an empire” ; in Taiwan, Beijing has advocated national reunification on a version of the Hong Kong model, again a far cry from an imperial design. Yet, Americans have a good reason to fear Russia prevailing ...