How powerful would you like Russia and China to be?
Has the financial black hole of our involvement in destabilizing the Middle East made our lives better?
Has it made us more powerful?
If we were worried about China we wouldn’t tolerate American consumers and corporations funding their military build up and we wouldn’t tolerate their stealing of technologies. Trump is the only one acting like he cares.
Russia really only has a few cards to play, energy/teaming up with China, and their nukes. Once again, it’s Trump who wants to drive a wedge between China/Russia by having better relations with Russia.
Blowing up Middle East countries and deposing their governments, certainly on the face of it, doesn’t enhance our position in the world.