Endgame of the Long Cold War

... Marshal Tito was balancing between the two camps and seeking a third road. The (Indian-supported) Sri Lankan slogan of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace arose only because of Admiral Gorshkov’s blue-water power projection. Realism dictates that the Russia-China equation must move from the extensive to the intensive and make the leap from the quantitative to the qualitative. US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanaghan’s demarcation of the present struggle as between the “free and repressive world orders” leaves the Eurasian core states exposed to a neoliberal globalist discourse, without a competing ideology or narrative of their own regarding their notions of world order since their unilateral withdrawal from “ideology” in general ...