Endgame of the Long Cold War
... 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 ... ... because the Eurasian core states are caught in 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 forms of state and/or regime, ...