![]() and Russia view each other as bound prisoners within a cave. Unfortunately, the other prisoners do not believe the story and threaten to kill the escapee if he tries setting them free. The prisoner returns to the cave, attempting to share this knowledge with the others. However, as the prisoner begins acclimating to their new world and reflecting on their experience in the cave, they understand how their previous surroundings shaped their perception of reality. Initially, the prisoner does not accept what they see as real. Then, one day, a prisoner escapes from their bonds and ascends to the surface. ![]() Since the shadows are the only thing the prisoners see, they believe the shadows and the stories they create are real and true. The prisoners also play games guessing how the shadows may move next, earning praise from others when they guess correctly. As the shadows move and contort, the prisoners devise elaborate stories to help them understand what they see. Based on the angle of the statues and the placement of the fire, the prisoners watch, mesmerized by the shadows dancing across the cavern wall. Behind them is a raised ledge adorned with statues and a fire. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” prisoners grow up, bound to a cave in almost total darkness. does not appreciate Russia’s perceived permanent state of war with America. Instead, just as it was at the onset of the Cold War, the U.S. values and interests… seeks to restore its great-power status and establish spheres of influence near its borders.” The problem is not that the two nations view each other as rivals or competitors. Russia, according to the 2017 United States National Security Strategy, “wants to shape a world antithetical to U.S. From the American point of view, Russia serves as a globally destabilizing and disruptive force working to enhance its own global influence. Russia believes that Western nations’ desire to maintain hegemony weakens international and domestic institutions, destroys the Russian economy, and increases geopolitical instability. Unlike the Cold War, however, today’s Russo-American rivalry has less to do with the ideological incompatibility of Communism and Liberal-Capitalism and more to do with diverging strategic cultures and the logic of realpolitik. The war’s battlespace is everywhere and, until recently, not isolatable to any particular point on a map. ![]() does not recognize and refuses to accept. Russia is engaged in an undeclared state of war that the U.S. ![]()
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