American grand strategy relies on staggering conflict with their “peer rivals” (Russia, China, increasingly Iran) to avoid a two front conflict, while pushing allies on other fronts to invest in defense to cover for redployments.
If the allies refuse (or fail) to rearm indigenously, it limits America’s ability to isolate powers in a fashion that is manageable for the empire. It’s their ultimate crabs-in-a-bucket strategy that doesn’t account for the willingness of the crabs to organise or refuse orders from the empire.
American grand strategy relies on staggering conflict with their “peer rivals” (Russia, China, increasingly Iran) to avoid a two front conflict, while pushing allies on other fronts to invest in defense to cover for redployments.
If the allies refuse (or fail) to rearm indigenously, it limits America’s ability to isolate powers in a fashion that is manageable for the empire. It’s their ultimate crabs-in-a-bucket strategy that doesn’t account for the willingness of the crabs to organise or refuse orders from the empire.