There are two kinds of geopolitical analysis accounts on X that we should beware of : the grifters and the virgins. A common tactic from some big X accounts to deceive their audience is to take this example of the US re-positioning its last aircraft carrier out of East Asia, and claim that this is proof the US is "disengaging from Asia", is "slowly learning to live in a multipolar world" (yes, someone actually said that with a straight face !) and "is giving up its pivot to Asia". Nothing can further from reality on the ground. Many serious analysts, and there are plenty out there, have been saying for years that aircraft carriers are sitting ducks in the age of hypersonic missiles and drone warfare. Any aircraft carrier engaged against China or Russia would be turned instantly into a floating ashtray. So it makes little sense to keep them in the Pacific. The same serious analysts have described to great length how the US is arming to the gills its regional proxies for a conventional and hybrid warfare against China. The US engagement in East Asia is being strengthened, streamlined, made more nimble, and taking US troops out of harm's way by replacing them with locals. Reorganizing, repositioning and repurposing is not an indication of giving up. Follow these big geopolitical X accounts at your own risk. Many of them are only good at pandering to other big accounts, at playing the algo, at engagement farming. Because informing you is not their objective. What they are is either AI-charged teamwork outfits who gather the crowd and corral them back to a pro-empire narrative (you can call them controlled opposition), or AI-charged egocentric geopolitical virgins with naive takes, due to their inexperience in international affairs, Asian politics, ignorance of local languages (no access to primary human sources), etc. They either try to deceive you, or line their pockets with your engagement. Stay informed, not entertained !