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John Mearsheimer believes that great powers used two mains strategies in offensive realism to Contain and control the enemies and rivals. 1) Balance 2) controlling rivals through Buck-Passing. The author attempts
to show examples of United States’ efforts to curb adversaries through the second strategy. There are rivals and dangerous toward Iran and Iran and China are two adversaries which the United Sates wants to contain them through the third party. America tries to control those powers by controlling china through India and controlling Iran through Saudi Arabia

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