Indeed.....
I’ve still got my eye on Russia ad China though....they’ll team up with the ME. They just haven’t been pushed back into a corner far enough yet. But they will be.
Enough idiots want to push Putin for no benefit to America. He will oblige.
“I’ve still got my eye on Russia ad China though....they’ll team up with the ME.”
Both Russia and China have significant domestic terrorist threats from Islamic groups. The Boston Marathon bombers got asylum into the US for being from such a community. Uighurs are the highest profile terrorists in China.
When Putin took power, he got on a plane that night and flew to Chechnya, where he had the Russian military commanders line up, and issued each one a hunting knife.
Their intel agencies might covertly collaborate with Islamic groups, but open strategic alliances seem unlikely to me.