I don’t think this is a mystery.
Putin’s war in Ukraine has doomed Russia to being a vassal state of China.
China will take Siberian oil fields in the next 10 years.
And Russia will just have to lie back and think of the motherland while it gets raped.
China is much smarter, they attain strength through trade and commerce, not War, as we are seeing. The world is getting tired of the US’s forever wars.