Here is Donald. Here is Vladimir.
Donald is scared. Donald is greedy. Donald wants everyone to admire his big red balloon.
Vladimir has a ruthless, clear-sighted sense of his personal interests.
What do you think is going to happen, children?
Pat the dog is hiding under the duvet.
Here is America. Here is China.
America is an established power. China is a rising power.
Are they going to fight?
Donald is strong.
Donald thinks the strong can do what they want.
Is he going to launch an expedition against Syracuse?
This is Sebastian.
Sebastian doesn’t really know anything about Thucydides either.
Sphinx 
I’m not sure who Sebastian is, but that’s okay. I don’t think China and America will get into a war because deep down I think most of the leaders on both sides know that would be writing checks they can’t cover. The American navy doesn’t want their ships to come within range of thousands and thousands of Chinese land based missiles and the Chinese navy doesn’t dare go toe to toe with the Pacific Fleet on the open sea.
If you follow the link, you’ll see that it’s Seb Gorka, former Trump adviser, who’s written an article explaining that he never asked Trump whether he’d read Thucydides but that’s irrelevant because he instinctively grasps the essentual lesson anyway. That lesson then being presented in terms of utter banality.
Truly a wise advisor if he knows not to ask the current president whether he has read Thucydides! And Wikipedia says he has three citizenships, so his next op-ed can be about Alcibiades’ lessons how it is important to have =xenoi= all over in case you suddenly realize you need to travel for your health.