Bhaijaan
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Look across the map and the Eastern Hemisphere seems to be a major historical, cultural, religious, and strategic battleground.
You've got the never ending Middle Eastern conflicts
You've got India-Pakistan religion based nuclear standoff
You've got a civilizational standoff between India and China which is an even bigger nuclear flashpoint
Russia-Eastern Europe are going at each other.
You've got the fiercely guarded straits like that of Hormuz and Malaca.
Together these conflicts keep humanity's existence and future at risk all the time.
And yet, the most powerful actor in this global drama, the United States, sits geographically insulated, guarded by vast oceans, bordered by relatively stable neighbors, and anchored in a hemisphere largely free of existential rivalries. The Western Hemisphere has its own complexities, but it lacks the kind of multi-layered, nuclear-tinged confrontations that define much of the East.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the closest the West came to such a moment a brief but terrifying glimpse into what sustained geopolitical tension might look like on that side of the world. Since then, however, the hemisphere has remained comparatively शांत, almost like a stage after the storm has passed.
You've got the never ending Middle Eastern conflicts
You've got India-Pakistan religion based nuclear standoff
You've got a civilizational standoff between India and China which is an even bigger nuclear flashpoint
Russia-Eastern Europe are going at each other.
You've got the fiercely guarded straits like that of Hormuz and Malaca.
Together these conflicts keep humanity's existence and future at risk all the time.
And yet, the most powerful actor in this global drama, the United States, sits geographically insulated, guarded by vast oceans, bordered by relatively stable neighbors, and anchored in a hemisphere largely free of existential rivalries. The Western Hemisphere has its own complexities, but it lacks the kind of multi-layered, nuclear-tinged confrontations that define much of the East.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the closest the West came to such a moment a brief but terrifying glimpse into what sustained geopolitical tension might look like on that side of the world. Since then, however, the hemisphere has remained comparatively शांत, almost like a stage after the storm has passed.
