Obrechennye voevat' - Allison Grekham

China and the United States are moving toward war, although they do not want it. The reason lies in the Trap of Thucydides: when the growing power threatens to oust the ruling, violence is the most likely outcome. This has happened sixteen times in the last five hundred years; war broke out in twelve of them.
Today, as China approaches a stagnating America, and Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries "great again," the 17th case looks inevitable. A trade conflict, a cyberattack, a Korean crisis or a Navy ship accident at sea can easily provoke a major war.
In this book, in order to explain the eternal mechanism of the Fucydida trap, the author masterfully mixes history and current events - and explores the painful steps that could have prevented disaster today.