It's pretty wild. Some sort of rapprochement with Russia is necessary if their goal is to encircle and strangle China. Russia is a nuisance to American interests, but China is an existential threat to American hegemony as we know it. Instead, the US flogged Russiagate for three years and completely poisoned relations with Russia, while imposing all sorts of counterproductive trade policies pissing off its closest allies instead of rallying them all against China. Now Putin an Xi are breaking bread at the Beijing olympics.
It's pretty wild. Some sort of rapprochement with Russia is necessary if their goal is to encircle and strangle China. Russia is a nuisance to American interests, but China is an existential threat to American hegemony as we know it. Instead, the US flogged Russiagate for three years and completely poisoned relations with Russia, while imposing all sorts of counterproductive trade policies pissing off its closest allies instead of rallying them all against China. Now Putin an Xi are breaking bread at the Beijing olympics.