An Era of Monumental Geostrategic Blunders

Meanwhile, and as China rapidly prepares to commit geoeconomic suicide, not even they have realised that it is the essential structure of a psychosis to cultivate such an effectively infantile relationship with the world in which the dependency upon confrontation and conquest forms the ideological core of their political narrative of self-identity. Even should they prevail over Taiwan, they have structured their political self-validation in ways that can only ever obligate them to more conflict and more conquest. We’ve already seen how that turned out for Putin but this is, it seems, an era of monumental geostrategic blunders.