Now when the China swing is in full gear, I think it’s just fair, that the readers here are told a bit about the theoretical basis I have built my ideas on.

When I studied history at university, before woke, I read this amazing book by Paul Kennedy. The rise and fall of the great powers.

It is thirty years ago, so it’s a long time back, before China really started evolving.

Kennedy has this final chapter, where he prophesies a bit about the future. His basic hypothesis is, that money is what makes a great state. And he is really clear, China is the next great power.

So, what I did, was to use the basis of Kennedys thesis, that a great state is made based on money, and started the great swing against China, and at the same time focus on building things in the west. Because that is where the money comes from.

As we speak, the whole development has really moved to a hot contested rivalry. China has become strong, but still far militarily behind the west, so if we get to blows, and we might, then we still hold and edge.

It’s inevitable in a sense, but the focus, that already happened ten years ago, has made it possible for the US to step into the conflict with much more strength than if the seeping of know how and industry had continued for another ten years.

So we are winning, and this will give us a comeback.

G-d bless the will to make the West stronger than it is.