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Why erect?

China is now going to support Russia. The world isn't going to sanction China so this is a net win for China. We are in for a long hard slog now.

India remains neutral and even our friends in Israel remain neutral.

the whole thing is about the galvanizing effect of a hot war in affirming the alliances that defined the latter half of the 20th century and made this world the thing it is today, alliances that were frayed as of 3 weeks ago. three weeks ago i was saying it was looking like the end of all of those things, and now it just looks like a new beginning to those same things. we won the cold war, we can win cold war 2: bejing boogaloo

MBS now invites Xi for a visit during Ramadan after snubbing Biden....

https://thehill.com/policy/internationa ... adh-report

We are seeing some large symbolic moves here. People are definitely messaging.

I'm beginning to think Ukraine was indeed somewhat of a sideshow...did we just deliver Iran and Saudi Arabia to China/Russia?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ru ... ar-AAV2YeY

The way I'm reading this article...a lot of this makes more sense if the goal was to capitalize on our turn away from MBS and his dictatorial...tendencies while also complicating current negotiations with Iran. With the invasion of Ukraine putin has secured a lot of land and a lot of farm land to be exact:

https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/rssiws/al/cro ... _wheat.jpg

Perhaps we should look to this map to see exactly where his forces will stop? Kyiv will be symbolic but all of Eastern Ukraine is surely going to fall under the Russian umbrella. Yes Russia sucked and yes it wasn't as easy as they had hoped buuuuuut now we also know why they may have been holding back on use their air force too. They're preserving it. Maybe the long game is decoupling from the west and pursuing modernization/growth with trade between China/axis powers (China, Venezuela, DPRK, Middle East, etc).

With Iran frustrated with US sanctions and their own desire to pursue nuclear weapons and with Saudi Arabia desiring more military support to wage the civil war in Yemen and elsewhere we have two large oil producing nations aligning more with China/Russia than the US. And now Russia is securing valuable farm land...and China is potentially looking to support Russia through this new period of international ostracization. So now...while we depend on China for a metric shit ton of manufacturing they are positioning themselves to become self sustaining with a steady supply of commodities to ensure success with their bid to take Taiwan..................

This was the game all along. Everything now hinges on India.