U.S. should sign sphere of influence agreements with Russia and China to avert unnecessary wars in Ukraine and Taiwan

A grand strategic partnership for peace between the U.S. and Russia could help neutralize the Sino-Russian alliance and forge a new, more safe and secure tripolar international order

This article was originally published in The National Interest on January 15, 2022.

In late December 2021, Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened that the rejection of Russia’s proposed security agreements with the West would be met with “appropriate retaliatory military-technical measures.” Gilbert Doctorow, a Brussels-based political analyst, has …