In Moscow this week, the Chinese and Russian leaders revealed their joint commitment to redesign the global order, an undertaking that has 'not been seen in 100 years.'
Can this traspire without WWIII, already being waged through hybrid warfare, without going kinetic. If t goes hot, can nulear winter be avoided? These are the questions on the table now that the gauntlet has been thrown down.
In Moscow, Xi and Putin bury Pax Americana
Pepe Escobar
Such Tankie horseshit. Putinka is Xi's bitch now. And he has his eyes on Central Asia...and Siberia, too.
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Putin is correct in seeing a vibrant and independent Ukraine as a threat. It serves as a model for all those conquered ethnic minorities. He had to try and crush that. But he has failed and accelerated the final collapse of the remains of the leftover Russian Imperial State. And his own fatal fall from power.
One great irony is that Ukraine's pernicious corruption was drowning Zelenskyy. His approval rating was in the 20'a just before 2/24/22. But Putin has not only made him a hero, but given him the power to root out corruption with a ruthlessness he could not have previously gotten away with.