RETURN TO WINTER
Russia, China, and the New Cold War
Against America
By Doug Schoen
In Fox News analyst Doug Schoen's new book, Return to Winter: Russia, China, and the New Cold War Against America, he tells us the U.S. is a nation in crisis. While Washington has been rendered nearly impotent by ongoing partisan warfare, we face an array of national security threats that America seems increasingly unprepared, and perhaps unwilling, to handle. Among these, none is more formidable than the unprecedented partnership developing between Russia and China, two former foes drawn increasingly close together because of a confluence of geostrategic, political, and economic interests - all of which have a common theme of diminishing, subverting, or displacing American power.
While
America's influence around the world recedes - in its military and diplomatic
power, in its political leverage, in its economic might, and perhaps most
dangerously, in the power and appeal of its ideas - Russia and China have seen
their influence increase. From their support and interventions on behalf of
rogue regimes like those in Iran, Syria, and North Korea to their aggressive
use of cyber-warfare and intelligence theft, Moscow and Beijing are playing the
game for keeps. Meanwhile America, pledging to "lead from behind," no
longer does much leading at all.
In Return
to Winter, Doug Schoen and Melik Kaylan systematically chronicle the
growing threat from the Russia-China alliance and argue that only a rebirth of
American leadership in the world can counter the corrosive impact of this
antidemocratic alliance, which may soon threaten the peace and security of the
world.
Return
to Winter outlines how Russia and China
are now operating against American and Western interests in nearly every
conceivable area:
- * Russia working assiduously to build more nuclear
facilities for Iran and ensuring Iran maintains "breakout
potential" for a nuclear weapon - even as the West formalized its
nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic.
- * Enabling the Syrian regime: making it possible for
Assad to deploy chemical weapons against his own people, preventing U.S.
interventions in Syria, forcing Obama to walk back his "red
line," and, finally, deploying Russian forces to protect the Assad
regime.
- * Keeping the deranged North Korean regime afloat for
years and enabling Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities - which have grown to
be far greater than previous American estimates.
- * Russia's plans to destabilize and annex territories
in Europe - from Eastern Ukraine to the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia,
and Lithuania.
- * China's expansionism in the East China Sea and the
South China Sea, where they are flouting international law and making
claims that would put one of the world's primary shipping lanes almost
entirely under Chinese direction.
"Return to Winter puts on the table what many have
preferred to ignore or wish away, namely that our current foreign policy is
causing grave and systemic harm to American interests all around the
world." --John Bolton, Former United States Ambassador
to the United Nations
