This old darling wrote a story in Time several months ago.
He calls it geopolitics, and geography, and zero sum geography, rather than civilizational rivalries.
He won't admit the obvious, in that regard.
A civilization is not reducible to geopolitics and geography.
Back when one was talking only about the West, and its balance of power, one cold talk about geopolitics and geography, within that Western civilizational framework, and one knew what one was referring to there.
With Kaplan, it is hide the ball punditry, really.
Scanned a review by Bacevich, who reviewed one of his older books; he wants a new Empire of the US, rather like Niall Ferguson in that way, just not a Western one.
The US, you know, went rogue on the West, from the start.
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