if russia aligns with the chinese, then they are unstoppable and we're fucked.
but, if we can peel the russians away and build an alliance with them, then we have some chance of hemming the chinese in.
so, what do the idiots in washington do? they insist on depleting military resources fighting against our only possible way out.
thankfully, the russians are patient and understand this better than anybody. we've been through this already....repeatably...and we have to just hope that washington eventually pulls it's head out of it's ass and figures it out.
otherwise, we're going to end up a province in a chinese mercantilist empire that is just going to bleed us dry until there's nothing left.