Happy New Year from Manchukuo (1930)

I was watching Prof. John Maersheimer's lectures about power policies,  and if China's rise will necessarily be opposed - militarily - by the USA. His answer is yes, it is inevitable. America has consistently all along its history engaged and destroyed potential peer powers such as: Indian nations in the continent, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, the Soviet Union, etc.

If China succeeds in rising, the Tibetan Lama Kingdom and the sinization of the Turki (Uyghur) nation reflects the future of its neighbors. The Chinese most hate the Japanese and the question is what will Japan do? With its sinking population, defanged of imperial ambitions, it may find a niche as a barbarian tributary state. (Postcard 1.1.1930). India is also nervous about a giant neighbor.

Maersheimer says that America is interested in the Middle East only because the oil is here. The power trying to dominate this area/resource is Iran. It follows that its clerical regime will have to change, it is something of a miracle that the mullahs still are in power thirty years after. If archeologists are right, priestly rule was common in the Mesopotamian States of the antiquity, a temple being the focus of the settlements. But in our days there are no other states ruled by God's Representatives on Earth. Our main interest is to keep Iran far from us. In this anarchic world (no one answering 911) we need to be part of a regional system. Who is the enemy of Iran? We should be their friend.