Risk averse k-selective peaceful herbivores like the Chinese and Indians as well as weak degraded gynocentric globalist soy Europeans can no longer afford to sit on the sidelines and rely on diplomacy, tit-for-tat trade wars, and appeasement while their strategic sphere of trade and economic activity are in jeopardy.
My Chinese friends have relentlessly argued that China can't afford to put its long term economic growth plans on the line by going to war against America but that kind of pessimistic, low T risk averse thinking won't produce wealth, but rather slavery. Strategy of slavelabormaxxing to grow the economy doesn't work because predatorial Whites know that slaves are too risk averse to fight so they can be subjugated more and more, and driven to work for less and less without any uprising.
Eventually, you do have to grow a spine and fight for your rights and freedoms. Peaceful herbivore races think that they can endlessly enjoy periods of peace, prosperity, and economic growth without becoming targets. This is our blind spot. We don't recognize how the ground has been steadily shifting underneath our feet. We think being a passive low key 9 to 5 wageslave is enough to survive and build our savings. This is false! You have to make sacrifices to preserve peace. You have to be willing to expand in order to keep invaders on their toes. You have to cultivate fighting ability and be ready to die any second. Without all this, you can't preserve what you've built.
The problem is that our approach to geopolitics is defensive and we are not a warlike people. We are comfort-loving low T peaceful subhuman slave people who just want to get by from one day to the next. The West on the other hand has a pro-active offensive geopolitical strategy that aims to curtail the growth, development, and expansion of rival regional powers like China, Iran, Russia, and India.