Ultimately, we don't compete with Russia much anymore since we realized they can't afford a military campaign that lasts longer than a month and since we started using domestic oil.
A ground war isn't of concern to us, or else we'd have knocked off the norks a long time ago. Russia's main concern is its nuclear arsenal if it were to ever get in direct conflict with the US, which is something that didn't even happen during the Cold War. China is the larger competitor to the US, but Russia is still a relevant geopolitical antagonist - unless we forget, say, that they just recently were behind
a sizeable hack of US institutions. And they also
sold Turkey a missile defense system which might expose the hitherto US-built system, an issue strong enough to get rebuke from NATO and both recent US administrations.
China is the bigger dog, but it isn't like Russia is an irrelevant backwater. Putin succeeded, if only through the IRA and his crimea campaign, in making it a player on the world stage.
How long you give before China sets up shop in the US and starts selling America for cigarettes? I give it by 2030 since Biden/Harris are so cozy and America has no idea that they’re being seen as weak and easy to take advantage of and push around.
So cozy that the admin is still calling them
guilty of genocide, something that Pompeo only did right as he was on his way out. Now, you might read the first half of that article's headline and short-circuit it to confirm what you already think, but what Blinken is saying here is "the US is not going to let China be the #1 player in terms of international trade agreements, climate change, so-on."
See, when the US stepped back from all of those things, it made a vacuum. A vacuum that China filled. So it is that China set up
an alternative banking system, has tried to
enter into the TPP (which still exists, yes), it continues its
belt and road initiative, launched
its own GPS (which is also available to other countries, obviously getting data), been c
losing predatory credit and loan deals with other countries, and it has positioned itself as
the country to bankroll and
do business with climate initiatives, which is a tactic not dissimilar to their baiting people with offers of 5G.
And what did the US get accomplished in that time? Not a whole fucking lot. So the Biden admin wants to present the US as still capable in these fields, rather than an unpredictable and unreliable ally - it wants to attract foreign climate change investment and minimize what goes into China, it wants to frustrate China's entry into shit like the TPP, it wants to encourage other countires not to close deals with China but with the US, it wants to get countries to use its own tech without resorting to fucking sanctioning them for not doing so, so-on; it is taking a harsh line against China that is actually going to show up in policy, rather than the Trump admin's limp-dick bluster culminating in a retarded trade war which hurt the US a whole lot more than it hurt China.
The notion that Biden's going to get right in bed with winnie the pooh is religious dogma from retards who also unironically thought that trump "solved" the nork crisis by getting a photo with the fatty - ie, mouthbreathers who don't know shit about geopolitics just repeating what they heard on the television.