Claims

One critique of the Campbell-Doshi essay is that the approach is too late and 'the ship has sailed,' but Doshi argues this approach could still succeed if the Trump administration had the discipline and vision to implement deals with allies.

The US should have modest and humility about its capability to change China, and if you begin with that assumption, it leads to slightly different emphasis in endgame goals but not necessarily very different policy prescriptions compared to more hawkish approaches.

The US should prioritize China as a geopolitical concern (Marco Rubio, Michael Waltz, Alise Stefanik appointments are hawkish on China), though not to the exclusion of managing other regions.

The US is 'overstretched' and 'sleepwalking to Armageddon' due to entangling alliances and military overextension, but the solution is not isolationism but rather more careful rebalancing of commitments, though this is difficult to articulate precisely.

Relentless NATO expansion toward Russia (particularly in Ukraine) was probably not a good idea geopolitically and should have been thought through more carefully; while Putin also bears responsibility, NATO should have been aware of how Russian leaders would react.

The US and Israel should follow an Israel-led foreign policy in the Middle East rather than an idealistic neoconservative approach, because Israel understands it is a small country that needs realistic strategy; Israel is more skeptical of transformative regime change projects than neocons.

The problem with Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is not primarily that Iran is a 'crazy theocracy' that would use them, but that any country with nuclear weapons changes regional dynamics and allows it to support proxies (Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah) with impunity, destabilizing the entire Middle East.