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Russia and China are ringed by the most dysfunctional places on the planet because their own security paradigm manufactures failing states.

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  1. Sarah Paine

    Historian of maritime and continental empires who taught strategy at the U.S

    One, you're surrounding yourself by failing states. You can look at Russia and China and they're surrounded by some of the most dysfunctional places on the planet and you go, "Gee whiz, are they unlucky or they complicit?"

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