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4 April 2022

We overestimated Russia’s military. Is China our real rival?

James Pethokoukis

We in the United States have a terrible track record of judging our foes.

Yes, Mitt Romney was sort of right when he described Russia as “without question, our number one geopolitical foe,” during a 2012 presidential debate with President Barack Obama. Obama, of course, replied with what at the time seemed like a mic-drop zinger: “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”

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