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China's sway over Russia grows amid Ukraine fight

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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

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While Moscow increasingly looks like a junior partner to Beijing

“Looks” like a junior partner but with the resources Russia has, it will always be an equal partner if not more.

China has thought out two counter moves against the US Navy: build up its own navy and transport energy by land, the Belt Road Initiative and Siberia 1 and Siberia 2.

Wouldn’t it be great if the US could pick up the valuable oil and energy if Russia collapses like in the 1990’s post USSR collapse? That’s what this war is about, to weaken Russia.

Selling arms enriched American in WWII and so they’ve embraced exporting weapons and creating conflicts. The Soviet Union collapse was a windfall and so let’s work towards Russia’s fall. What Biden did is just the opposite.

An old farmer saw a rabbit running head on into an old stubborn tree stump breaking its neck. The farmer returns to the stump the next day and thinks if I just wait here, I’ll be able to get more rabbits.

The U.S. is like that farmer and relying on old tricks of arms exports and collapsing governments.

The U.S. - Japan can be said to be a model of former enemies turned partners. The Japanese I’ve talked to tend not to agree. They wish to develop their own military and build their own weapons but the US will not allow any of that.

Russia and China are now a model of nations with border disputes turned partners. Instead of arguing this is mine, no it’s mine, why not do what China is doing with Russia and go for the win win situation?

Instead of carrying on territorial disputes, China is able to tap into the vast resources Easter Russia and help develop infrastructure there.

“There is no alternative to Russia as a partner providing resources that China will critically need in case of an escalation in its confrontation with the West,”

There are alternatives but Russia is right next door and the pipelines are pumping for Chinese manufacturing.

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Russia can flog its stuff cheaply to China and other nations, despite US sanctions, considering itself a superpower because of its weaponry/energy. China is a superpower without comparable weaponry and plans to utilise Russia as a vassal state and Wagner as a proxy armed force.

The US are happy to push them together to create Cold War 2. If things heat up and WWIII kicks off, Russia will trash Europe, China will trash South Korea and Japan, and the US will sit back, get rich and dominate, as it did after WWII.

America's only concern may be the potential for a domestic political or financial/banking collapse.

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It didn't have to be like that, but both the Chinese and Russians see weakness in this admin and they feel emboldened and immune from any reprisals, so why wouldn't they come closer as allies?

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As Russia says, it is facing an existential crisis but the threat is from the East, not the West. But, it is too dumb to learn that. It has spent too many centuries focused on not feeling inferior to the West that it is culturally obsessed by this. In doing so, it paradoxically merely lives up to its worst atavistic, uncivilised reputation. It's a death spiral.

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The invasion of Ukraine was a huge mistake by Putin, with massive damage being done to Russia as a result. Meanwhile, China is getting cheap oil, selling electronic parts to Russia at a massive profit, and seeing many countries, including most of the former Soviet satellite countries, turn away from Russia.

If Xi is careful, this war will be as good for China as it is bad for Russia.

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Xi looking at Central Asia and the Russian far east and licking his lips. They can dominate it whilst Russia continues to embarrass itself against a minor neighbour.

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Both the US and China have a vested interest in seeing Russia weaken itself economically and militarily in Ukraine. To that end, neither country would mind seeing the war go on for a long time.

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There is no honor amongst dictators or tyrants, just present/future global leverage to a singular absolute control, a personalistic autocracy.

“For Beijing, a close study and partial use of instruments and decisions used by Russia is a reasonable course in a situation when China’s confrontation with the West looks inevitable”

Time to create and give no quarter to a political environment for the Government of China to face the fact of total annihilation.

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Everyone trying to kiss Xi butt, especially the European since this war will be a yoke around the next forever,until Putin withdrawal,but never happens,they are willing to throw Ukraine under the bus ,if they do not see progress before July

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American worries about Ukraine,when the US and Iran,have been dropping bomb on each others the last few days ,the same drone use in Ukraine,was used in American , penetration of their radar system in Syria

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