Because Putin is white and tries to make Trump feel important and probably has dirt on Trump, but Xi Jinping isn’t and doesn’t feel he has to play games. China really doesn’t need anything from the US. They can easily do trade with most of the world, to include Russia.

Because the convicted sexual abuser is likely a Russian asset.

@Caravanfan Hit the nail on the HEAD !

The US is not, but we have this Russian asset who made it to President thanks to corporate media, social media bot campaigns, a lot of wiped voter rolls, and computer hacking the vote counts in swing states.

There is zero logic to anything at this point.

I think this administration is trying to stop the march to WWIII by deescalating the conflict in Ukraine. They’re giving the appearance of siding with Russia when it comes to concessions that Ukraine will have to make. I also think they’re trying to drive a wedge between the uneasy alliance forming between Russia and China. Ultimately, there are parts of Russia that China wants but that’ll be messy. We don’t want Russia messy. That’s bad for everyone considering what they have that can easily fall into the wrong hands. We are not Russia’s friends. Russia is a cornered wild animal that we have to deal with. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

China can be attacked and attacked from all three of the navy, air force and army. While Russia is harder. Being limited to army, and air forces.

China is more of an immediate threat, while Russia has to go further to attack the USA.

Also China is more of an economic threat than Russia. Like China cornering the market of rare earth elements.

Are they, though?
Because apart from tariffs, banning chinese nationals from buying real estate, and the now rescinded tiktok ban, are they really “containing” China?
Because everything else the colonies are doing helps them.
Shuttering the soft-power agency USAID, whose purpose was to align other countries towards the colonies by giving them aid, will open those countries up towards China, who by the way, are already engaged in the same activities already, and for the same reason.
Likewise, the tariffs imposed on former allies and treating them like enemies will further compel them to forge stronger bonds with China.
Krasnov is now preparing to lift sanctions on Russia, an important trade partner to China. This also helps them.

Because Xi Jinping has made China a lot more aggressively nationalistic and strategically antagonistic toward the West.

Western corporations used to exploit China for its cheap labour and lax regulations. Now they’re highly restricted, and CCP backed Chinese corporations have supplanted them.

After bootstrapping China with decades worth of free technology, China is now threatening technological supremacy over the US, and the US is doing everything it can to stifle their technological development.

Russia is more of a nuisance to Europe, which Trump doesn’t seem to care about—maybe we didn’t let him build his golf courses or something. Trump and whatever strategists he has advising him, also want to get Russia on their side and be less of a partner with China.

@ragingloli The US is devoting a huge amount of military effort towards discouraging China from expanding while in Europe it is positively encouraging Russia to do the same. Compare American attitudes to Ukraine which has been invaded with Taiwan which hasn’t.

Building roads in third world countries is a preferable projection of power than droppling bombs on people and infrastructure but that isn’t what I am talking about. I’m talking about war and preparations for war and the complete failure of soft power.