Good point, but the big difference is there are not 1.5 billion Canadians desperate for land and resources across the Detroit River.
A Russian diplomat once confessed that in the next 50 years Russia would lose Siberia to a China. He said that would be a bad day for Russia, but it would be a worse one for the USA.
He is right: China with Siberia would become a hegemonic power.
It’s why this Ukraine nonsense is a shame. Russia should be working with the West to protect against China.
From a Russian perspective, China is a distant potential threat, whereas the West is an immediate and present threat.
I don’t see China forward-deploying troops towards Russia, supporting insurgency and treasonous elements to subvert the Russian political system, and imposing economic measures to impoverish Russia. The West does it for 30 years.
It's nonsense on many levels. They turned their “brothers” into mortal enemies, they ruined their reputation, they spend additional billions on military when at the same time they can't put together a friggin pipeline without help of western companies. All of that so older KGB dude and his buddies can get away with stolen billions covering it up with “NATO aggression”. 20 years from now people there will be back to producing porn as the main source of income complaining how the whole world failed them. Pathetic.