If rival civilizations feel they are ‘second class,’ there’s a reason for that.
The increasingly evident de facto alliance between Russia and China makes the war in Ukraine begin to look a little more like a front in a larger clash of civilizations.
In his famous mid-1990s book of that name, Samuel Huntington briefly contemplated such a partnership: “Russia and China united would decisively tilt the Eurasian balance against the West and arouse all the concerns that existed about the Soviet-Sino relationship in the 1950s.”
