If Beijing is, in the long run, a more important rival than Moscow -- if China's capacities and ambitions are more dangerous than Putin's bold play of a weak hand -- then we may need a path to de-escalation and wary cooperation with the Russian regime.
Donald Trump, with his grotesque embrace of Putin's thuggishness, is not the man for that task or any other. But as has often been true in this election, in the midst of his folly you can see the questions that the next generation of leaders needs to ask.
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