What you do not get, is that Xi & the CCP are watching this with great glee, as the U.S. & NATO throw their weapons into Ukraine. Why you ask? Because China has been at war with the U.S. for decades now, and the weaker we become they less threat we are and the easier it will be to neuter the U.S.
Yes, the Chinese are enjoying this episode of “Let’s you and him fight.”
A weakened West won’t be able to do much in TIwan. The Pacific could become a Chinese lake. And a weakened Russia would have trouble holding onto Siberia. China could dominate it, even if the figleaf of Russian sovereignty over it were to be maintained.
What you do not get, is that Xi and the CCP are watching this with great glee, as Putin and Russia throw their failing weapons into Ukraine and prove what a rotten toothed tiger they really are. Not only is the Russian population shrinking, but now their armaments have shrunk, and they seem to have little capacity to produce new ones. They had to obtain Chinese tires which proved useless in the Kiev attack. How soon will it be before China moves into parts of Siberia with or without some kind of agreement with Russia, for what kind of payoff or threat? Look for interesting developements along those lines this coming decade.