Why the U.S. should fight Cold War 2 - by Noah Smith

And what it means to "fight" in this case.

So far, I’ve written about Cold War 2 — the emerging conflict between the developed democracies and the China/Russia axis — in a very analytical way, as something that’s just happening, which we have to understand and adapt to. And I’ve tried to think about the kinds of things we can do to avoid losing that conflict. What I haven’t really done is to explain, in a comprehensive way, why the U.S. should engage in such a conflict in the first place. This has led some people to assume all kinds of motives, both for me and for writers with broadly similar opinions — that we view a U.S.-led…

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