[EnderWiggin1970]

It is one of the great geopolitical blunders of all time. Russia and the US should have formed an alliance against China as the latter rose to power, to protect both America commercial and geopolitical interests and Russian control over Siberia.

Instead, the hubris and powermongering neocon set drove Russia into China's arms. While they boast about "diplomatically isolating" Russia because the handful of has-been dying European states under Washington's thumb goes along with them, India, China, the growing BRICS block and everyone else carries on business as usual with Russia. It is Washington that is getting diplomatically isolated.

And that doesn't even get into geopolitical disasters like the wholesale loss of the Sahel, Afghanistan, the Middle East plunging back into strife and war after the Trump peace, and so on.

[freeandfreezing]

Russia and the US should have formed an alliance against China as the latter rose to power

How would that have worked? Russia and China were both the result of communist revolutions and Russia was always allied with communist China. Have you ever wondered why China, North Korea, and North Vietnamese troops use AK-47 style rifles?

Why and when exactly would Russia have abandoned their communist allies in China?