"Geopolitically, America is an island of the shores of the large landmass of Eurasia, whose resources and population far exceed that of the United States. The domination of a single power of either Eurasias two principle spheres, europe or Asia remains a good definition of strategic danger for America, Cold war or no Cold war. For such a grouping would have the capacity to outsrip America ecomically and militarily. That danger would have to be resisted even were the dominant power apparently benevolent, for if the intentions ever changed, America would find itself with a grossly diminshed capacity for effective resistance and a growing inability to shape events Henry Kissinger.