Posted on 05/17/2024 6:47:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A vaunted 'new era' of strategic partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Xi Jinping may not exactly have been sealed with a kiss, but it did lead to rare hugs between them.
Underscoring the importance of Xi's support for the Kremlin, Putin headed to Beijing earlier this week in what was his first trip abroad since his March re-election and the second in just over six months to China.
Russia, grappling with Western sanctions after its invasion of Ukraine, is increasingly reliant on its booming trade with China, which is challenging US supremacy in areas from quantum computing to espionage and hard military power.
And although President Xi, in keeping with the tenets of China's political culture, is not known for effusive displays of warmth, he gripped Putin tightly by the shoulders and pulled him in for a pair of firm, if awkward, hugs.
Footage from state broadcaster CCTV showing the leaders enjoying the uncharacteristic embrace in the evening air of the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in the Chinese capital as aides and officials fawned and clapped from the sidelines.
The cuddles came following an informal tea and dinner event last night considered to be the key session of Putin's two-day visit to China.
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It’s amazing to me (well not really) that some one is so stupid he doesn’t know how the forum works in terms of posts and the reply button.
But you are a traitor to the United States of America and our Constitution and have thrown your lot in with our foreign and domestic enemies.
You recognize the illegitimacy of our current “officials” but throw your lot in with and provide comfort and aid for our enemies who have helped to orchestrate the takeover of the United States by our own traitors and domestic enemies.
What the heck are you on?
Truth and Freedom.
Do you support Chicoms?
finnigan doesn’t realize that NATO is a European franchise for the U.S. Military and its war products. It’s a weapons bazaar for the US Defense Industry. It’s a cash cow that still believes the Soviet Union is in existence. Without the Media continuously demonizing Russia, there would be no money, no big bucks and no Neocons like finnegan.
The motion has been passed, that we shall barbecue this evening upon that bit of the sacred soil that I own.
And phooey to you.
Classic Communist rhetoric, decades old.Pacifist movement communist front rhetoric.
Our Obama people have pushed what you said 100%.
Until now when they usurp control and use it to their advantage. That’s how power struggles always work.
And Putin and Xi are their best friends. They justify NATO, give it cover.
I'm getting freep-splained by Free Republic Class of 2012.
Nice try, n00b.
They certainly are angry about the collapse of the Ukrainian front line.
Show me where the NATO charter allows member states to supply military weapons to a non-member state engaged in a border war with another non-member state.
Tell your Biden to quit licking Xi’s boots, n00b.
100%. For more than two years they have punched out the Biden propaganda and now reality is hitting them in the face. The collapse of cognitive dissonance has them very angry.
“ Show me where the NATO charter allows member states to supply military weapons to a non-member state engaged in a border war with another non-member state.”
Your irrationality is striking.
Does NATO have authority over the activities of the sovereign member states?
Do you think NATO charter is a higher authority than the US Constitution or the laws of any other member state?
You don’t even make a rational argument.
Biden is illegitimate and not president. He is a Xi bootlicker.
But so are you.
Why do you support Xi-Putin-Ayatollah-Hamas axis?
you didn’t answer the question; on what authority is NATO defending/supplying weapons and men to Ukraine? Be specific.
“ you didn’t answer the question; on what authority is NATO defending/supplying weapons and men to Ukraine? Be specific.”
That’s not what you wrote. You can’t even understand your own writing.
NATO is of course not doing that, but if they were to it would be on the same authority Putin claims to justify attacking and invading Ukraine.
I doubt you’re going anywhere with this, but just try and say whatever argument you think you’re making.
For example, what is this “authority” you think NATO has and what does it have to do with Putin attacking and invading Ukraine?
In both my questions I asked from where NATO authority to arm Ukraine is drawn from, and in both cases you’re unable to answer. We’re watching a global version of WWF wrestling, complete with good guys dressed in drag and bad guys draped in propaganda. It’s a con, a racket yet delusional Americans like yourself believe that NATO is somehow connected positively to our failing American government. The media driven Russophobic lunacy continues unabated and uninterrupted, it’s no wonder Russia has been pushed to act in a way it hasn’t since WWII, and I don’t blame them. NATO’s Eastward expansion is all reasonable men need to know about Biden and people like you who support him.
“ In both my questions I asked from where NATO authority to arm Ukraine is drawn from”
Actually, no. Your first question asked about countries that are members of NATO doing it.
NATO has no authority over these countries, what they do independent of NATO.
The second time you did ask this.
I did answer. The same authority Putin has to attack and invade Ukraine.
I’ve said it twice now.
What authority is that?
The authority to do whatever they want.
The rest if what you say is overwrought drama Queen rhetoric. Perhaps not without any validity, but overall incoherent except if understood as anti-US pro-Putin.
Hock full of false dichotomies and illogic.
If you are joining a foreign country and defecting to Russia you make sense.
Putin and Xi are not good because Biden is bad.
They are all bad.
NATO has the authority to do whatever they want? Are you wearing your Clown 🤡 suit? It’s no wonder Putin is in China forming a defensive bloc.
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