An American tourist in Russia
The USA has a long track record of promoting chaos and instability around the world. This violence can provoke regime change, like the 2014 Maidan uprising in Ukraine, or can put other world powers into a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation, forced to choose between allowing riots to burn down whole cities, or using deadly force to stop them.
The 1983 Soviet stop-motion animation, Conflict ( Конфликт), presents a simple and pure message. A modern war between two world powers is insanity that would inevitably end in nuclear armageddon. No matter how restrained or polite the conflict, sooner or later one side would be defeated and use their nuclear arsenal in a last-ditch attempt at self-preservation.
Application of Theories to Circumvent Thucydides’s Trap The goal of this text—to provide a plan of action and source of inspiration to those who wish to prevent America from falling into Thucydides’s Trap—and its relationship to the theories thus covered should not be difficult to surmise. Positional Insecurity Theory, Substitution Theory, and Distraction Theory all … Read more
