I’ve been saying this was the end result of the failed Ukraine folly since Putin invaded.
The only winner in Ukraine is China.
Putin has good reason to mistrust NATO, as does NATO have good reason to distrust Putin, but their common enemy, and much more serious threat to the west and Russia is China.
China is run by extremely racist people who make the Nazis look like amateurs in their beliefs of racial superiority. China intends to kill white people and enslave everyone else. They literally published books about it. It’s their goal and deep cultural ideal.
Russia has won the war in Ukraine started by the US. The media just doesn’t want to report it because the media was on the other side.
US policy since Nixon was to keep Russia and China apart and off-balance.
Stupid, arrogant US neocons destroyed that policy and drove them together. They believed their own propaganda.
Nixon and Kissinger played off China against Russia. Will Trump and Rubio play off Russia against China?
The joke in eastern Europe during the Cold War was that an optimist studies English, a realist studies Russian, and a pessimist studies Chinese.
Much of Siberia is of Eastern Asian stock. I could see China sending “colonists” under the guise of illegal immigrants into Siberia. This is being done now in Europe and US. It was also done in the 1830s in Texas.
Inevitably the immigrant/colonists will claim mistreatment by the Russians and pressure for Chinese intervention.
Siberia is much more valuable to China in the long term for land and natural resources than Taiwan will ever be. I doubt the Russians could put up much resistance with conventional weapons.
Any recommendations for such a book published in the past 20-25 years?
Thanks.