While America is distracted with the problems of race and the President’s push to pass and expensive and intrusive government health care system, two of the world’s biggest powers have started to cooperate militarily: Russia and China. What does this mean for America? It means that while the United States may remain the only superpower, an alliance between Anti-American states may counterbalance our influence. We already see it happening. Both China and Russia are indicating their willingness to adopt an international currency to replace the US dollar. Both China and Russia are rushing to secure energy and nuclear deals with developing nations around the world. China is brutally cracking down on the Uighur population in its western provinces while Russia recently invaded neighboring country Georgia and redrew their borders (by recognizing former-Georgian breakaway regions). Most importantly, both China and Russia are providing arms, aid, and diplomatic support for most of America’s enemies.

With the recession taking a heavy toll on the American economic juggernaut and with the new administration pumping so much money into the system that it may significantly weaken the dollar, these two nations now see that it is in their mutual interest to join forces against us. The reason is this: these nations want to retain authoritarian control at home and the United States constantly badgers everybody about democratic reforms, tying diplomacy and economic policy. These nations also have expansionist tendencies that do not interfere with each other, for China it is Taiwan and for Russia it is all of the former Soviet republics. The current administration ignored North Korea and they set off an atomic bomb, we engaged with Iran and they starting killing pro-democracy protesters, we cannot ignore nor embrace these developments in Asia. The last thing we need is an alliance between nuclear powers whose only goal is to undermine the United States. I am certain that Obama does not want to be the president who sat by idly as a Sino-Russian Axis became the de facto world superpower.

-AG