Endgame of the Long Cold War

... that a common threat and a fairly congruent or compatible domestic model (of state capitalism) make the Eurasian core states share far more substantive geostrategic interests... ... 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... ... an ideological pincer today: their adversaries see them as on a continuum with the Cold War communist enemies, in their allegedly totalitarian, authoritarian or repressive/unfree...