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.
One can see the Chi-Com “detente”— to get the US and Russia to bleed each other dry on mil-hardware (and in the best of scenes— get US troops into UK as “nato”). Bleed both dry, and Taiwan is Chi-com’s game... a two front “war” on the US created by the chinese agents and paid thugs within the US government and mil-industrial corporatists (who make their money sucking the teat of the “gopE” gang of eight morons, McConnell and the FedReserve loans kicked to the taxpayers).
Why focus on Putin— whoever replaces him could be much worse, in fact a greater danger. The problem here is our own clowns think they are experts in the Great Game. Their track record is really piss poor, all the way from Vietnam, through 20 years in Afghan, 9/11 missed or ignored to keep in the game, and finally Afghan gone with billions of new hardware. The fine hand of the obamaumao muzzies embedded in our derp state and agents in place. We must clean house first—there are such things as muslim chi-com Communists, with all the profiteering greed done to our Country.