IMHO:
Zelensky ought to be pissed (at Xiden). He’s been played to make ukraine ground zero for the first shots of Cold War II, all planned & set up under Zero’s watch. Now that Xiden et al have driven the chinese & russkies together, ukraine’s fate is sealed:
They are doomed. They/he WILL lose (I predict zelensky will miraculously survive and pop up overseas somewhere). But that’s not the worst part of it:
It would be wise to stock up on Potassium Iodide, because history is repeating itself under an entirely new paradigm, unfortunately heralded by a throng of ignorant, dumbass faux conservatives and dunce republicans in lockstep with the left/globalists as ‘a good thing’.
Even if nukes are avoided, the coopting of Russia to the ccp will come at an unbearable cost and, ironically, seals OUR fate.
Good observations and suggestions. Haven’t been on FR to see if the headline of “Red China to broker peace deal with Ukraine” has been posted.
Xi and Putin are pals, and Putin clearly watching the chinee. All here should remember the other proxy war the mil industrials got us screwed up with post wwII in French Indochina— yes over a French colony only recently taken back from the Jap Empire. The Russians won Vietnam for a very well known cultural reason— Vietnam when it was an empire of it’s own- traditional enemy was.. China.
And recall another thing— when Kim Jong Un was getting loonier and slinging missiles over Japan and towards us— at the behest of the Chi-Coms-— well the Russians had a huge build up of troops on their North Korean border (and in turn the Chi-coms built up on their Nork borders- to protect the coal the major export to Chi-Coms from the Norks).
Putin and Xi getting together is a “thing”— but China wants Russia for itself... there is no doubt Putin knows this. For North Korea, Russia’s relative influence/importance remains low. Kim saw an opportunity though, with Trump to break from Chi-Coms, maybe. China’s economic and political influence on North Korea eclipses that of Russia, and North Korea sees its relationship with the United States as the primary obstacle to its development objectives (which are in reality under control of the chi-coms). The Chi-coms tried to kill Kim Jong Un with Covid (this was little noticed) and replace him with his nutso fanatic sister. She has only recently been seen in public- Kim put her away somewhere.