The scene: the Oval Office, White House, Washington DC.
Present are:
Donald J Trump, president
JD Vance, vice president
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
Pete Hegseth , Secretary of Defense
Michael Waltz, National Security Advisor
A fly on the wall
Waltz: Our starting point is that conflict with China is inevitable at some point. There is no other country that can threaten our hegemony. We must at all costs prevent this.
Trump: Exactly. We are the top predator. The world is too small for two top predators.
Waltz: So our priority is to isolate China. Expand our military power in the Pacific theater. That’s why the war in Ukraine must end. It has driven Russia into China’s arms. The BRICS is now an insignificant talking club but it could be the beginning of an anti-American bloc. We can’t allow this.. We have to detach Russia from China and we cannot do that as long as this war continues. So we are going to impose a peace that lets Russia keep its conquests. In time, we will lift sanctions and normalize relations.
Trump: There is still a lot of money to be made in Russia. I’m thinking of a Trump Tower in Moscow, for example.
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