Source: The Dispatch
by Nick Catoggio
“Any time a hawk criticizes the president’s isolationist tendencies, some MAGA apologist starts squawking about China. It’s not that Trump wants to retreat from NATO and Europe, we’re told, it’s that he has to. America has only so many ships and planes and tanks and men so it needs to prioritize judiciously in how it allocates military resources. Clearly, a rising power with the world’s largest population is a higher priority than a declining power that’s about to enter year four of trying to subdue Ukraine. … We can’t contain Russia because we have to contain China. It’s airtight. Except for one thing: Where is the evidence, exactly, that the president intends to contain Beijing in his second term?” (02/12/25)