Posted on 07/18/2019 5:34:52 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
During his state visit to Russia earlier this month, President Xi Jinping of China effusively hailed President Vladimir Putin of Russia as his “best friend and colleague.” Putin, not to be outdone, replied by affirming his personal respect for Xi, and suggested that Sino-Russian relations have progressed not only to an “unprecedentedly high level” in recent years, but are now increasingly based on a “truly comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction.”
But whatever Putin means by “strategic interaction,” and despite the undeniable progress in Sino-Russian relations over the past decade, it is easy to fall into the trap of exaggerating what some fear is an emerging Sino-Russian “axis” in world politics. Notwithstanding the Xi-Putin friendship and the growing congruence of both countries’ interests in undermining the US-led international order, relations between Russia and China remain at their core as brittle and prone to mutual suspicion and distrust as they have in the past.
It is, after all, only 50 years since the two Eurasian giants nearly stumbled into a cataclysmic war following a series of unprovoked Chinese attacks on Soviet troops garrisoned along the then-contested river boundaries in Russia’s Far East. Although Moscow stayed its hand from an all-out military assault on China, the border clashes of 1969 continue to rankle historical memories and military thinking in Russia to this day.
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That’s quite a prediction.
Is that before or after China defeats the U.S.?
The way things are headed - after.
From ““best friend and colleague” to war? Lots of opinions out there I guess.
“Is that before or after China defeats the U.S.?”
Delusional idiocy.
This site is smarter than that.
Go home and sleep it off.
A war between Russia and China so soon fits the same category.
There are Freepers here who can verify, the Russian-Sino border conflict cir 1969? That a tactical nuke was used.
Someone is going to have to put the brakes on Chinese expansion in the Pacific first, almost certainly the US working with Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan and others. And the article is factual that the only greatness Russia has is in their own minds. Their nuclear arsenal is all that keeps them from being an irrelevant 3rd world back water.
Fighting over Siberia?
Nobody thought rag-heads would be able to bleed our military dead and dry for over two decades either, but here we are.
I don’t know about war between those two - but the Democrats have blustered and blundered by pushing Russia closer to China due Hillary’s war hawkishness and the party and intel agencies following her lead with the Russian Hoax.
The saddest part of all is that Hillary was never a Russia hawk, she made the whole thing up about Russians attacking the DNC server, no-fly zone over Syria, sanctions for Crimea etc simply to butch up her campaign and deflect from her own Russian culpability. Anyone who sincerely opposed Russian advancement would never have agreed to transfer 25% of our Uranium to them, nor would have taken $125 million or more from Russian government related entities.
Not so far fetched. Russia has a collapsing birth rate, is weak economically, but has lots of natural resources in Siberia, right next to China. Resources China needs.
Germany and the Soviet Union took the exact same path between 1922 and 1933 when Hitler came to power. Not saying history will repeat but it has happened.
The Bear and the Dragon, great book! “The Bear and the Dragon is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 21, 2000. A direct sequel to Executive Orders, President Jack Ryan deals with a war between Russia and China, referred respectively in the title as the Russian Bear and the Chinese Dragon.”
I see a flaw with this prediction. It’s nonsense.
Is this scheduled before or after the end of the world predictions?
I don’t think so.
Why?
I think it is easily lose lose for both sides and I think that realization will prevail.
China has the numbers, but in the face of an existential threat from China Russia will not play Truman; they will go to their battlefield nukes.
That is very interesting—first I’ve heard of that, but I don’t get around much. Is it more certain than McCain and the Forrestal fire?
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