Rah,

I enjoyed your post, but I am not too sure I agree with a couple of the points you make:

“This 21st century will see many hot spots in the drive to secure energy and material sources by Russia and China. The next 50 years will not be as peaceful as the last 50 years.”

First Russia: You cannot eat oil or natural gas. So, energy such as this helps within the framework of the western system. By this I mean that wester countries rely on oil and gas to make their economies run. If you hold these economies hostage and they deteriorate, there goes YOUR revenue.

Second China: China is more exposed to this. They are completely plugged into the Walmart economy – they need cheap energy to produce goods, and ship them to folks who can buy them. Threaten this system at any point, there goes THEIR revenue.

“We also need to secure our domestic will, the constant damaged to our will from the 5th element in the US will have to be addressed. America is very vulnerable to internal ideological challenges

“We allowed Russia to infiltrate the western institutional systems and we need to weed Russia from those.”

This has been happening for almost 70 years – good luck. The US has always flirted with socialism/communism because we have never fully implemented its ideas, and like those who did, we haven’t yet thrown these ideas into the trash bin.

“Getting any power and influence of Russia out of NATO is needed. Hopefully they will talk about that on Tuesday. So a new NATO may arise from the ashes of the old with the vigorous new blood of the Eastern European nations.”

What are the birth rates in these countries (honest question – I don’t know. But the rest of western Europe is in bad shape).