The 'Junior Partner' Meme Gives No Insight To Real Changes

https://www.moonofalabama.org/ ^ | March 23, 2023

[elpadre]

It is quite interesting how 'western' political memes are created and spread.

China’s New Vassal - How the War in Ukraine Turned Moscow Into Beijing’s Junior Partner - Aug 9, 2022 - Foreign Affairs China used to be Russia’s junior partner. Ukraine changed that. - Feb 24, 2023 - MSNBC Russia Becoming China's 'Junior' Partner - Bolton - Mar 13, 2023 - MENAFN Fatalism is not an option for addressing China-Russia relations - Mar 17, 2023 - Brookings > China’s leaders appear guided by three top objectives in their approach to Russia. The first is to lock Russia in for the long term as China’s junior partner. < White House knocks Russia as China’s ‘junior partner’ - Mar 21, 2023 - Washington Post > Is Russia now a client state of China, a reporter asked National Security Council spokesman John Kirby at the daily White House briefing. “They certainly are the junior partner,” Kirby replied, a line sure to echo inside the Kremlin and at Chinese Communist Party headquarters. <

From an older piece in Foreign Affairs to an MSNBC opinion writer, then through warmonger Bolton and the librul Brookings think tank to the White House.

And from there it is all over the synchronized media:

Meet China’s ‘junior partner’ - Mar 21, 2023 - Politico Xi Jinping-Vladimir Putin talks highlight Russia’s role as ‘junior partner’ to China - Mar 21, 2023 - Financial Times A Slim Rhetorical Wedge Could Drive China and Russia Apart - Mar 22, 2023 - DefenseOne U.S. officials must skip no opportunity to remind Moscow that it is Beijing's junior partner. A new cold war with Russia as junior partner and the US as a ghost of itself - Mar 22, 2023 - Digital Journal

[elpadre]

interesting!!

“The likes we have not seen in 100 years”

excerpted:

“..A hundred years ago the world had just seen off a big war. Four big empires, the Russian, German, Austria-Hungarian and the Ottoman had suddenly vanished. The U.S. had stepped onto the international scene. In China the Kuomintang and the Communists founded the United Front to beat the rampant warlords the imperialists had created. (Russia helped with that.)

Those were indeed times of great changes. We now see similar changes in this word. The U.S. empire and its proxies are in decline. The BRICS countries, led by Russia and China and rising, now have a bigger GDP(PPP) than the G7....”

[PGR88]

for 60+ years, common-sense US policy was to balance Russia and China, and use one against the other and keep them from direct cooperation, which was our fear in 1950s.

One would think that with China now being a manufacturing superpower, such a policy would be even more relevant.

But Pedo Joe, the US deep-state and its permanent war cronies have decided none of that mattered - let’s drive Russia and China into an alliance “not seen in 100 years.”

Dumbasses!

[DUMBGRUNT]

An old saying:
“In Moscow, they teach many languages. Russian to those that want to study the past, English and Hebrew to those that want to leave, and Chinese to those that want to stay.”