Stupid or indifferent is, I suspect the answer. Well, that and the fact that those who profit from the Great Game are also the ones who own the press.

That aside, we would likely see a reversion to the Great Game way of doing geopolitics anyway, because we are moving into an era where the global conditions are favourable towards that kind of strategy. In fact, the only people who don't seem to have realised this is the Atlanticists, who seemingly can't or won't accept that in a multi-polar world there is no real reason that Europe can't set itself up as an independent power in a way that were precluded during the bi-polar and uni-polar worlds of (the second half of) the 20th century.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.