Alaska Summit: The Reverse-Nixon Play
Even if Trump were to offer — even hypothetically — a sale of Alaska back to Russia, it would be to separate Russia from China. The hope would be for a closed-door agreement to strategically misalign the two, effectively divorcing Russia from China to extend U.S. economic dominance and weaken BRICS. That would be a strategic win for the United States. Without China and BRICS, China could not wage war and would return to insular endeavors, building its treasure chest of national DIMEFIL and thinking in generational, compounding terms.
I believe the theory mirrors President Richard Nixon's visit to China to alienate the Soviet Union. Did it succeed? The Soviet regime fell. It was a notch on the belt that prevented the Russians from ultimate success.
Historical echo: In 1972, Nixon and Henry Kissinger intentionally triangulated China and the Soviet Union to fracture Moscow’s power — “pit the Soviet Union and China against each other with the United States as a third corner of the triangle.” History.com reports that this “enemy of my enemy” strategy was central to U.S. Cold War realignment. Wikipedia notes Nixon aimed to weaken Soviet influence by courting China, and the Shanghai Communiqué marked a realignment that significantly isolated the USSR. These moves leveraged the existing Sino-Soviet split, turning communist blocs against each other.
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