re: Spinoff: Russia military ascendance. Caspian Fleet bombing Aleppo.

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I would be fine if we gave them the Middle East, but let's quit wasting trillions and trillions of dollars there if that is in fact our strategy.

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Or...engage in cooperation.

Again, this seems to be a foreign concept to most Americans in the post-Cold War age, but we can SHARE influence with other great powers in unstable regions like the ME. But it requires us to first acknowledge that other powers have equal rights and interests in these regions.

This is a huge first step to ensuring cooperation, stability, and peace amongst the world's preeminent powers.