Either or parallelism confusion

IfAmerica allows China and Russia to establish regional hegemonies, either consciously or because its politics are too dysfunctional to muster a response, it will have given them a green light to pursue their interests by brute force.

This is an extract from the economist.please explain the parallel structure of either x or y in this sentence.

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