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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

"C'mon now! all he's really done bad is not to register as a foreign agent of the kremlin: as for china helping Russia: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...&postcount=128[/COLOR]

Assuming Russia’s collapse is not imminent, China will use Russia’s increasing isolation to transform Moscow into a petrochemical satellite, taking advantage of Western sanctions to secure Russian energy flows indefinitely. In turn, China hopes that Russia, humbled or emboldened by its Ukraine adventure—and with or without Mr. Putin at the helm—will occupy Western attention as Beijing gobbles up the choicest Pacific possessions and extends its economic and diplomatic tendrils into the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe. Far from accepting independent Russian action, China is counting on Russian failure to accelerate the satisfaction of its boundless appetite.

If Putin isn't overthrown from within and the new leader seek an opening towards the West and NATO.
Then China is on its own.

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