At sporadic times of inconsequential normalcy, on the streets of Russia you will see two distinct types of people asked for identification, Asians and middle eastern males. When asked why, the average, ordinary grey-person in Russia going about their business, ambivalently has no idea.
Russia is a massive country.
To the southeast they are bordered by China, Mongolia and Asia, they even have a small border with North Korea. To the southwest they have the “stans,” most notably Kazakhstan; this region is the source of most domestic terrorists who attack inside Russia. To the West they have Ukraine and the EU nations.
From the standpoint of Russia, they have Asians on their East, Arabs on their South and EU supported Nazis on their Western flank. Keep in mind, despite the breakup of the Soviet Union the muscle memory from World War II is still very much a part of their social compact.
Consider Arlington Cemetary for scale. If you were to build a cemetery just from the battle of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) it would be bigger than Washington DC. If you were to build an Arlington type cemetery for all the Russians killed in World War II, the 27 million gravesites would envelop a landmass bigger than Washington DC and the state of Virginia combined. These realities underpin Russian perspectives.
CTH shared previously that Russia is drawn into an alignment with China not by desire, but rather by necessity. Most ordinary Russians do not like China, and they would prefer not to purchase Chinese industrial or manufactured goods. Russian President Vladimir Putin is well aware of this, and I believe U.S. President Donald Trump is aware also.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said publicly it should be U.S. policy to support separating the two biggest nuclear powers, China and Russia as a matter of strategic U.S. interest. President Trump said, “I’m going to have to un-unite them, and I think I can do that, too,” shortly before his election in November. “I have to un-unite them.” {link}
In a very downplayed statement earlier this year hidden by media, the former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and current Secretary of State -also National Security Advisor- Marco Rubio, said “Ukraine was a proxy war for the United States against Russia.” Despite the U.S. media intentionally hiding the statement, Moscow immediately noticed and affirmed the accuracy.
Ukraine launched a covert attack against Russian air force bases last Sunday June 1st. President Trump was not informed of the attack in advance and was unaware it was going to take place. In the aftermath, President Trump and Secretary Rubio stayed quiet.
Three days after the attack, Wednesday, June 4, President Trump held a 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Last week the New York Times received “an eight-page internal F.S.B. planning document” … “that sets priorities for fending off Chinese espionage.”
[…] Ares Leaks, a cybercrime group, obtained the document but did not say how it did so. That makes definitive authentication impossible, but The Times shared the report with six Western intelligence agencies, all of which assessed it to be authentic. The document gives the most detailed behind-the-scenes view to date of Russian counterintelligence’s thinking about China.
[…] Russia has survived years of Western financial sanctions following the invasion, proving wrong the many politicians and experts who predicted the collapse of the country’s economy.
[…] The Russian document describes a “tense and dynamically developing” intelligence battle in the shadows between the two outwardly friendly nations.
[…] Read one way, the F.S.B. document lends credence to the theory that, with the right approach, Russia can be cleaved away from China. The document describes mistrust and suspicion on both sides of the relationship. (more)
CTH will repeat prior outlines based on available public data as well as my research trip into the current disposition of Russia. The Russian Federation and the Russian people do not want deepening ties with China.
Despite people from the Eastern side of Russia often being called Asians, even within Russia they are known as Asian-Russians, they do not align with a Chinese worldview. One of the key positive characteristics of Russia is the lack of pretending both in government and in the people. Russians do not describe China as the panda; they have very clear eyes and see the dragon behind the panda mask.
From the Southeast Russia has Chinese espionage pressure points; from the Southwest Russia has Arab terrorist pressure points; from the West Russia has EU/Nazi NATO pressure points, and the CIA has activated strategies to stimulate all these agitations.
All of my political instincts tell me that President Putin and President Trump are in alignment. The challenge for President Trump is to overcome the opposition forces from within Western government (NATO) and Western media.
When President Trump and President Putin come into open alignment, the entire world changes.
Their opposition knows this.
President Putin and Russia can only guarantee their long term security, by overcoming the Globullust deep staters embedded in Western Democracy Governments, which Russia and President Putin do not have the ability to overcome.
The only way President Trump can guarantee his A1st, MAGA movement survives him, is if it is continually working to defenestrate and dethrone the Deep State Globullusts embedded in Western Democracies; something HE can not do.
ONLY by working TOGETHER, against the common enemy can Russia and President Putin, and MAGA and President Trump survive.
It really IS that simple; Walls, …Wheels,…and a common foe. Things that never change.
Think about what Sundance has written, and what we see with interviews with President Putin and Lazrov, confirming how brutal honesty is hard wired inti their DNA.
And, think how duplicitous, panda mask/dragon mask is likewise hard wired into the Chinese DNA.
See how the U S. had the outlines of an agreement, and China was already renigging on rare earths, and had to call them on it; they can’t help themselves, and it must drive the Russians CRAZY.
Excellent observation, Dutch!
Opposite magnetic poles.
Deceivers versus Perceivers.
Superb analysis.
Notice how Mark Rutte who could not fix the problems of the Netherlands when he was prime minister and now is NATO general secretary is ranting and bloviating about the threat of Russia. He conveniently ignores the history of Russia and is a disgusting warmonger.
I thank you for this post. What is being brought out here has been my view of Russia for most of my life.
Russia under President Putin and the USA under President Trump are heading the world toward a good place.
I LOVE this article. Very enlightening and a perspective we don’t often get here in the USA. That said, I question how the author came up with his figures on the equivalent land mass that Russian deaths in WWII would occupy proportional to the land mass of Arlington Cemetery. Washington DC is 68.34 square miles. Arlington Cemetery is about 1 square mile. Performing a simple ratio and proportion I come up with 67.5 as the square miles as the land area required to house 27,000,000 graves. or a land mass roughly equivalent to the size of Washington DC. That is STILL a stunning comparison and in no way undermines the basic point of the article. Thank you for writing it!.
More about the NYT content from the Ukrainian perspective, the only link DDG AI Assist showed as having been used for its summary when I asked about the NYT story, probably because the Ukrainian article has the most detailed summary:
Russia’s FSB calls China ‘the enemy’ — leaked NYT report exposes secret Kremlin fears
June 07, 2025
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-s-fsb-calls-china-the-enemy-leaked-1749306966.html
Read the article, thank you for the link.
Seems like Russian intelligence realizes that China is a friend to no one.
I wonder if one of the Russian intelligence guys got frustrated with his government getting cozy with China and wants to sound the alarm, or if the Russian government is sending a signal to Washington that they are not as friendly with China as it might appear to the outside world?
Who benefits from this “leak?”
Not entirely sure, but isn’t it interesting that the NYT “shared” it with so many intelligence agencies?
Ostensibly to verify it, but perhaps to disseminate it?
Sanctioning Russia pushes them toward China. The people responsible for that is, us!
Sometimes I wonder why some follow and comment. Open your eyes and think. When Trump met privately without interpreter with Putin in Helsinki, why do you think he did that and what was the agenda. Remember the whole fake psyop of Russiagate was over a year and a half, driving a wedge between Trump and Putin. Why Russia?
Because the E.U./U.N./American Uniparty with a partnership with China as expressed by Agenda 2030 and it’s previous resolutions, Putin and Trump were the two world leaders, and nuclear powered ones at that, who were anti globalist, pro independent nationalists. And Trump winning in 2016, threw more than a monkey wrench into their plan.
They saw the greatest enemy to both countries as being your city of London, E.U. elitists, along with the Uniparty in D.C., and have worked together ever since.
That is why they had to flood the 2020 vote with 25 million fraudulent votes to get the destruction of America through division and crushing the economy while allowing 20 million illegals. They understood the cost would be great even if they succeeded in a kinetic war. Plus they value the farm land. So America was a win the war without troops. Russia was always destined for a military assault. We all should be hankful, that the Russian people have been dealt with the brunt of this fight with human loss, just like WWII. The difference being is this has occurred from us, whom Trump is trying to stop , but seems unable. I am sure that has Putin concerned. He has those in his own country that are upset, and are wondering if Putin is to weak to finish this thing called Ukraine.
It is so clear. Why cant you see it?
FWIW, that’s the clearest point in everything you wrote. It’s the one thing I will unabashedly laud Putin for, and it should be at the top of our thinking on everything-Putin.
“Why can’t yo see it? ” Ron McBride, one must remember that everyone’s reality is different. The way you see something would be different than the next person. This is why when police interview witness to a crime or an accident they get different accounts of what happened. Everyone’s perception of what is going on is different.
Try not to belittle people with the comment of “Why can’t you see it? Maybe say this is the way I see it. Give people something to think about
China, the CCP, is not even friendly with its own people.
Russia is surrounded and has to walk a fine line… I feel sorry for them. If you recall, Russia tried to help Syria get rid of the Muslim Jihads Rebels that we / McCain were supporting because Assad didn’t want Qatar having a pipeline running through Syria to Turkey. Turkey is not our friend either and in NATO. God help DJT and Rubio set this straight!!.
“The Russian Federation and the Russian people do not want deepening ties with China.”
How can we be so sure, without hearing from the Russian people? The Europeans have cast them aside. NATO clowns have been clamoring for more and more war each day.
I’m not buying this until I hear it from people on the ground.
Sundance has been on the ground.
Hello D)
I follow people who observe/study Russia and Sundance’s article checks out. Russians by and large do not trust China or even Chinese people in general.
One of my adult students is Russian and she had very little nice to say about Chinese living in Russia. “They are like snakes, not trustworthy at all,” is one such quote.
Same here. An English teacher at Moscow University, an IT graduate student from the Novosibirsk region, and a car dealership owner who left there in 1991, right up the road from me, just by example. The Chinese are even more foreign (hence objectionable) to the average Russian than they are to many of us.
Having known several Russians on a more or less kindred-spirit basis over the years, from Moscow to Tomsk (middle-Siberia), I’ll vouch for Sundance’s opinions on this subject.
I read Russian.
Mr. Yucki is Russian.
Nobody should trust the Chinese. They are out only for themselves. You can see that in looking at the wealth distribution in all of the asian countries around China. In each one, the ethnic Chinese make up a minuscule percent of the population, like around 0.5-1.0%, yet they own 90% of the wealth of that country. You’d have to be insane to think that the Chinese are actually wanting to be your friend.
the first 5 1/2 minutes of Mike Baker’s you tube channel he calls the President’s Daily Brief (full video 20 minutes; he is former CIA), he speaks to this NYT story about the leaked FSB report:
Not widely reported at the time, the USSR and CCP fought, as in armed combat between military units from both nations, many very large battles in the 1970-80’s along their common border.
Then again from the dustbin of history:
The Communist Chinese were regular participants in the international Comintern’s conducted by Communists of the USSR, after 1920.
The USSR provided allot of political and material support to Chairman Mao’s efforts and growth of communism in China in general.
In the 1930’s the USSR provide massive amounts of military aid, in the form of; equipment, instructors, Ground Troops, USSR Air force Units, money, et al … vs the Japanese … to both the Nationalists (the Japanese being a common enemy) and Communists (their friend Mao). In the 1940’s they continued to help Mao vs the Japanese and Nationalists. At the end of WWII things started to sour when 4 x Army Groups of the USSR swept across the Far East as part of their YALTA Commitment and occupied allot of land the CCP claimed as their own. (Note: this is the land still fought over in an undeclared border conflict.)
In 1947, the USSR equipped Armies of the Mao swept the Nationalists from China.
The break came somewhere in the 1950’s, when the CCP told the USSR that they no longer had the monopoly on World Wide Communism and fall outs over Korea.
Yet, China Inc. still relies on RUSSIA for allot of aerospace as well as naval technology, other military technology, automotive technology, etc.
The entire 100 YEAR relationship between the Russia-USSR and China-CCP has always been a love-hate relationship built on some sort of current events based necessity.
Plus, even with the border conflicts, the RUSSIANS still have this thing about “sustaining friendships” with nations (no matter who runs the Kremlin) that have not betrayed them.
Are you sure there was fallout over the Korean War? Recently revealed that up to his death Stalin supported the air piece of the war with not only MIG aircraft but Soviet pilots.
China still claims territory ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nerchinsk, 1689.
2023
Where Is Bolshoy Ussuriysky? Island at Heart of Russia-China Border Dispute
https://www.newsweek.com/bolshoy-ussuriysky-island-russia-china-map-dispute-territory-1823763
Thanks, Sundance … just went back & read Tucker Carlson 2024 Putin interview. Putin emphasized not “acting out of fear.” He emphasized looking at the changing dynamics of world populations & building a future to exist in that world. It seems President Trump (and maybe SOS Rubio now) are of the same mindset. Perhaps the “war” is really that mindset vs a historical CIA approach of acting out of fear (that has supported their own financial growth … & not MAGA). Sure hope the Senate & House wise up.
Tucker said: “Tucker Carlson: Well, of course, it did come true, and you’ve mentioned it many times. I think, it’s a fair point. And many in America thought that relations between Russia and United States would be fine after the collapse of the Soviet Union, at the core. But the opposite happened. But have never explained why you think that happened, except to say that the West fears a strong Russia. But we have a strong China that the West doesn’t seem to be very afraid of. What about Russia, what do you think convinced the policymakers to take it down?
Vladimir Putin: The West is afraid of a strong China more than it fears a strong Russia because Russia has 150 million people, and China has a 1.5 billion population, and its economy is growing by leaps and bounds — over five percent a year, it used to be even more. But that’s enough for China. As Bismark once put it, potentials are most important. China’s potential is enormous — it is the biggest economy in the world today in terms of purchasing power parity and the size of the economy. It has already overtaken the United States, quite a long time ago, and it is growing at a rapid clip.
Let’s not talk about who is afraid of whom, let’s not reason in such terms. And let’s get into the fact that after 1991, when Russia expected that it would be welcomed into the brotherly family of ”civilized nations,“ nothing like this happened.
You tricked us (I don’t mean you personally when I say ”you“, of course, I’m talking about the United States), the promise was that NATO would not expand eastward, but it happened five times, there were five waves of expansion.”
“Vladimir Putin: I will tell you. But let me finish the previous thought. We, together with my colleague and friend President Xi Jinping, set a goal to reach 200 billion dollars of mutual trade with China this year. We have exceeded this level. According to our figures, our bilateral trade with China totals already 230 billion, and the Chinese statistics says it is 240 billion dollars.
One more important thing: our trade is well-balanced, mutually complementary in high-tech, energy, scientific research and development. It is very balanced.”
So 2 points. But also read what I stated above as Trump and Putin have been against the globalist elites who have sided with China. Just look at agenda 2030 in the U N.
1. Please take heart what Putin says about his population. I looked this up today. Russia is a huge land mass. They have 9 citizens per km/ or 23 per square mile. Also their median age is 41.2/ with a life expectancy of 73. That is 40 percent of the U.S. population. Why would ANYONE believe that Putin is thinking expansionist of Russian borders to crush Europe. That is so idiotic it does not deserve a response. He has enough concern of trying to protect Russia, than to consider taking over any land. And if not a nuclear power, China would have overrun them already.
2. Consider what you are believing when you stated that our Congressional officials have a clue. Do you not understand and opened your eyes yet? They are aware. And they have either profited from the corrupt System and power, or are for the most part controlled opposition. There are few in the House, but even fewer in the Senate, who are going to support what the people want. As Sundance has repeatedly pointed out, especially long term office holders, are either criminals of the abuse of power, that they will do everything possible not to expose, or those that are compromised and forced to do as their told. The ONLY WAY TO RECTIFY TO RETURN THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE, Is the administration needs to daily drop all evidence and reports of those profiting and abusing the system, and tie it into stolen elections that have been rampant since at least 2010. And unless the Americal public, gets as mad as these current rioters, than Trump can not win. His power is in the people. That voice and rage of the American people is what’s holding everything up.
The Sino-Soviet Split happened after the Korean war. But it had more to do with the death of Stalin. Mao respected Stalin and took offense when Khrushchev began to denounce Stalin. The Soviets began to have more trade and diplomatic openings to the West, whereas Mao insisted there could be no “peaceful coexistence” with the forces of capitalism, kept pushing for worldwide socialist revolution and called-out the Soviets as revisionists and appeasers.
Russia is a HUGE threat if only because they have been successful in avoiding the problems of China and Islam.
If the USA learns this? The globalist agenda is dead. Unfortunately, it isn’t the USA government which needs to know this — they probably already know this and don’t care, welcome it in exchange for money or are too afraid to resist it or fearful things for which they lack the courage to face. It is the PEOPLE of the USA which need to understand this. And the things which block this?
1) Media and the brainwashing it performs daily
2) there is no #2 as the media is what keeps people stupid. People seeking new media are learning.
So we need to learn to push new media more and more.
We need Rumble to rise above youtube or to have youtube bought out or otherwise removed from Google’s control. Great things happened when Twitter was taken away from them no matter what else it seems to have cost us. We need to see more of the “Twitter takeover” to happen because the public doesn’t really believe the other platforms are viable. We “can’t make them drink.”
“Russia is drawn into an alignment with China not by desire, but rather by necessity. Most ordinary Russians do not like China, and they would prefer not to purchase Chinese industrial or manufactured goods. ….”
Wrong.
XI and Putin are buddies. Remember this from a little while ago?
“Chinese President Xi Jinping was photographed standing next to Vladimir Putin on Friday as thousands of Russian troops and military vehicles rumbled through Moscow’s Red Square during the country’s annual Victory Day parade.”
XI and Putin holding hands so the entire population of Russia and China and the world can see it.
And as far as that “explosive” NYT/FSB report is concerned, well, nobody seems to know where it came from.
“As per a report published by The New York Times, an undisclosed FSB intelligence unit has warned … .. ”
Get that “undisclosed” part?
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/china-is-the-enemy-leaked-russian-intelligence-reveals-kremlins-actual-view-of-beijing-accuses-it-of-espionage/articleshow/121708799.cms
To me, it’s all sucker bait used to advance the mantra that everyone should hate China. Want to be cool – hate China. Keep the money flowing into the MIC.
What do they have most in common: Both are Communist dictators. It’s just that one of them tries to hide it.
I think most of the Communists and fascists that fled Russia and Europe have been hiding in plain sight- right here inside the US gubmint.
Everyone should hate China because they don’t play by the rules.
They cheat, spy and steal, and they war plan against the US.
They aspire to world domination.
Never should have been invited into WTO, and never should have been given most favored nation status. This gamble failed as China has never adopted fair trading practices.
Russia has a complicated past with China. In the first Sino-Japanese War, Japan defeated China and the concluding Treaty of Shimonoseki granted Taiwan and Liaodong Peninsula to Japan. However, quickly after the Treaty was signed European powers forced concessions against Japan resulting in Russia occupying Liaodong and using Port Arthur as the staging point for its Pacific Fleet. Also in this time period the Russian Embassy gave sanctuary to the King of Joseon (Korea) at a time when China considered Korea to be its vassal state.
Russia would be defeated by Japan in the Russo-Japanese war resulting in Japan gaining influence in Manchuria through WWI (which they would colonize as Manchukuo) as well as forcing the abdication of the Korean Emporer and reducing Korea to colony status.
China participated (along with the UK and US) in the Russian civil war during WWI as part of the coalition force based out of Vladivostok which was nominally tasked with defending the Trans-Siberian railroad against the “red” Russian faction.
Good points, that pre-date 1920 … when the USSR was firmly established.
Another interesting point, along these lines, is that there were several very large collections of Russian Emigre’s and Refugees living in CHINA, escaping the Russian Communists, starting after 1920 when the Russian Civil War ended … especially in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. They consisted of ex-nobility, academics, soldiers, technocrats et al. The Chinese Nationalists and warlords actually made use of them.
I’ve been saying for a while now that the USA and Russia need to be working together to counter the Chinese threat. I’m no great fan of Putin by any means but, if we could team up with Stalin to counter Germany, we can definitely team up with Putin to counter China. What does America gain by helping the Ukraine anyway? I say NOTHING. We could benefit immensely by working with Russia though and it doesn’t mean we have to agree with everything they do.
I, for one, am in total agreement with Sundance’s clever analysis and sincerely hope it eventuates in the better interests of our two nations.
I hope Presidents Trump and Putin will exercise the utmost caution when they do meet in person. We all know the globalists are gaming-out various ways to kill one or both in order to avoid their alignment. If the US and Russia can improve their relationship, that will break the back of the globalist movement and almost certainly weaken communist China.
“We have always been at war with East Asia”.
Perhaps this is a leak from the good guys trying to tell the Unintelligent Idiots that they are focusing on the wrong target.
My take is far different. In order to believe Sundance’s take we must pretend.
1st we must pretend this “leak” just happened into the hands of the NYT, one of the IC’s go-to propaganda outlets.
2nd we must pretend the “six Western Intel Agencies” are to be trusted.
3rd….They admit it’s not confirmed, rathe they “assessed” it to be true. The same people who “assessed” to be true that Russia hacked the DNC, or the Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian “disinformation”.
Color me skeptical, but 10+ years of reading the CTH makes me think the story is likely an IC op, pushed through their favored propaganda rag the NYT, intended to destabilize the relationship between Russia & China at a time that the same Western IC’s are escalating the proxy war on Russia.
“… The Times shared the report with six Western intelligence agencies …” Is that like 51 former intelligence officials? /s I have a hard time putting credence into almost anything in the NYT or any of the other organs of state propaganda.
I still feel like I’m missing something. I’m clear that China is no friend of any country but China. Russia, to the best of my historical knowledge, has never been a friend to democracy. Putin sure hasn’t been, before or after the Wall fell.
Putin wasn’t tricked into invading Ukraine, he could have assassinated Volod just like he’s had people assassinated in other countries – like when he used nerve agents in England on someone he didn’t like. Am I supposed to think that Russia is some kind of friend to America? I’ll need a whole lot more info before that seems to become an actual reality in my mind.
America and Russia certainly do not have to be buddies to ally and work out a cooperative, mutually beneficial effort.
Your whole premise is wrong because you are brainwashed to think of Putin as the reincarnation of Satan himself. There is plenty of corroborating evidence in the West, to confirm 2 things.
1. Once the walls came down, what did we do to assist Russia. We sent business advisers to help Russia during the transition. Actually that is a lie. We had ‘ advisors, who were attempting to destroy the government to enslave their people and steal their resources. Putin, when he realized this, he kicked our scheming advisors out of the country.
2. Our Country, and OUR leaders, when asked by Putin, to become a partner instead of a enemy, we not only declined several times, but every treaty and promise we made to stop our expansion of NATO east, even to overthrow a Democratically elected state of Ukraine, it was OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE E.U. that broke every promise or treaty that we made with putin. And consider all the sanctioned murder of countries and people done by our leaders from 1997 till today. From the Russian perspective, WE ARE THEPICTUTE OF EVIL IN THRIR EYES.
This ‘leak’ is obviously deliberate and part of a larger game. It also rhymes with my understanding of the Russian society. I will vouch for Sundance’s characterization of xenophobia in Russia. It borders on systemic racism – or at least it did way back when. I spent six years in Russia just post Soviet Union, and saw this dislike of non caucasian citizens and visitors alike.
I’d like to see Russia as an ally
From your mouth to God’s ears Sundance! There is nothing I find more pertinent to world peace than the “rapprochement” between the US and Russia!
Ironic, 80 years ago we gave funded support to Russia to battle a Nazi regime .
Now we are giving funding support to a Nazi regime to battle the Russians .
Are we to really believe the IC mouthpiece NYT “Obtained” this report?
Russia knows it’s history and how many times China has stabbed them in the back.
A man named Michael Pillsbury wrote a book called “The Hundred Year Marathon”. It is about America building a relationship with China starting in the Nixon years. Pillsbury worked for the US Govt during those years. The Soviet diplomats he knew were not shy at the time (1970s) in telling Pillsbury that they did not trust the Chinese (even though China and the USSR were allies at the time).
Feels more like this leak is there to give the Neo-Cons more leeway to keep screwing around.
“All of my political instincts tell me that President Putin and President Trump are in alignment.”
I believe that as well and there are strong indicators from both of them that support this view:
First, Trump doesn’t praise the CIA’s Operation Spiderweb, characterizing it as an “…attack on Russia’s docked airplanes by Ukraine…” (my emphasis). He chose his words with great care, emphasizing the Russian planes’ position, (docked), which is in accordance with prior U.S./Russian agreements to put planes with nuclear delivery capability, and this attack violates the spirit of those agreements. He also clearly characterizes the attack as coming from Ukraine alone and steers clear of any suggestion of a U.S. proxy war against the Russian bear. Trump then characterizes Putin’s response as something the Russian leader has to do and emphasizes that all retaliation will be directed against Ukraine alone…not NATO or the EU.
Reading between the lines makes it clear that Trump and Putin see the mutual benefits of economic cooperation and a united front against Chinese encroachment. More importantly, their attitudes suggest they understand the forces opposed to their plans for detente and seem willing to tough it out and stay in frequent touch to avoid being drawn into the wider U.S./Russian conflict the globalists want!
And that can only be described as a good thing!
I grew up in the 60’s. I remember looking up “Russia” in the World Book encylopedia. It basically said “The enemy”. Are some living in that same world?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn alluded to a US-Russian alliance being necessary in this 1993 interview republished after his death:
https://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html
“AS: If one looks far into the future, one can foresee in the 21st century such a time when the U.S. together with Europe will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
Forbes: That is a puzzling assertion.
AS: It is puzzling only for those who don’t look into the future and do not see what kind of new powers are arising in the world.”
Want to “cleave” Russia away from China?
STOP supporting Ukraine.
Simple.
Russians aren’t stupid. They know the ChiComs covet the natural resources of Siberia. America is protected by two oceans. Russia has thousands of miles of frontier with hostile actors on the other side.
The United States of America was given God’s favor to remove evil from the earth during WWII. That favor was rejected by the disobedience of Allied leaders, who chose to pursue Operation Paperclip, and bring Nazi’s to the western hemisphere rather than eradicate them at the source, in Europe. For greed and power.
Go read 1 Samuel 15.
Plug in “Allied Forces” (Brit’s and USA) in place of Saul.
We must repent to get back in God’s favor. He will work out the rest.
The USA and Russia should be friends and allies, certainly over the heathen tyrants of the EU.
Let’s all believe the the New York Times! 😂
“If you were to build an Arlington type cemetery for all the Russians killed in World War II, the 27 million gravesites would envelop a landmass bigger than Washington DC and the state of Virginia combined. These realities underpin Russian perspectives.”
I see you updated your article to not include North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. That’s good. But. Virginia has a land area of 25,496,320 acres. Do you really think the 27 million Russians who died in WWII are each buried on 1 acre plots? If you remove Virginia and leave only Washington DC, this will be the approximate land area that the 27 million Russians are buried on… IF they all had burials… and IF none were buried in mass graves.
https://wilderness.net/practitioners/wilderness-areas/summary-reports/acreage-by-state.php
Where are all the burial plots for the Russians that the USSR killed? Was it 40 million? The history of Russia shows an awful habit of killing their own people too.
FTA: “The challenge for President Trump is to overcome the opposition forces from within Western government (NATO) and Western media.”
The REAL challenge is overcoming the opposition from our own traitorous citizens who prioritize their grifting over morals, laws, the safety and economic stability of their own countrymen.
China is brittle, desperate, racist as hell, and dangerous. They perceive everyone as both enemy and source of plunder. Our corrupt leadership disgusts them. So cheap to buy. By contrast Russia is a critical ally.
The other thing is that the Western intelligence agencies could have put this together to try and sew discord between Russia and China. Whether this document is real or not you can be sure the Russians keep an eye on China. After all they are not as stupid as we are.
Russia may not trust China but guess who they trust even less. I for one am not so sure that Russia will ever trust any Western country again. Putin and Medvedev have said as much.
It should also be pointed out that the Deep State wants exactly this…for Russia to be so economically isolated that it has no bigger market to sell most of its products to other than China … India is also buying Russian energy but this is much lesser in volume than the Chinese
By shutting Russia out of SWIFT and robbing it’s US treasury holdings in broad daylight, the Deep State has deliberately ensured de dollarization is inevitable for Russia… prompting it to accept all proceeds of its sales in Chinese Yuan
Both Russia and China are busy working on a financial/monetary system that is backed by commodities including Gold…. Hence , at this point the Deep State plan to drive Russia into the arms of China is working rather well.. whether the Russians like the Chicoms or not
“Whoever rules the Eastern Europe will rule the Heartland, whoever rules the Heartland will rule the World Island.”
The World Island is the central pivot point of the world but it is cut off from the oceans and global trade by the Rimland.
The Rimland form an inner crescent with access to the seas. But Rimland lacks resources they must get from the Heartland or get by sea from the Periphery.
“Whoever rules the World Island will rule the world!” This thesis became known, as the Heartland Theory, defined by Sir Halford John Mackinder in his 1904 book “The Geographical Pivot of History.”
A breakup of Russia (center of The Heartland) from both China and Europe (The Rimlands) leaves Russia isolated and largely cut off… unless Russia forges a new alliance with the USA.
A realignment uniting the USA and Russia joins the Heartland to the Peripheral Island. That is the best of all possible scenarios because it combines the massive resources of the Heartland and the Periphery with the US control of the world’s oceans.
It traps the Rimlands of China and Europe in between the two Superpowers and makes them dependent on both.
(Note an update of MacKinder’s map would probably move the oil-producers of the Arabian peninsula out of the Rimlands and into the Periphery.)
(The UK as an island nation can either be part of the European rimland or the periphery, depending on its political alignments. Japan can also fit into either category.)
Both China and the EU know all this and will use every tool available to prevent a US-Russia alliance from happening.
it will be incredibly difficult for russia/Putin to place ANY trust in the US…Putin is many things, but a fool and coward he is not.
The long years of US CIA and “other” involvement contains a very long list of deliberate actions taken by the US, for a very long period of time to harm the interests of Russia…
here is the short list:
Russia Russia Russia hoax. this is perhaps the most dangerous secret police spy state operation ever undertaken since the end of WWII. To imply that Russia not only interferred with the election, but was actually engage in direct coordination with President Trump.
the seizure of Russia assets…in the tune of around 1.4 trillion dollars. from london to NY to brussels and every kind of asset literally stolen and resold mostly from Russians. How should the kremlin act on that kind of warrantless non judicial police action? How do we propose Putin represents the wealth class who earned these riches, whom supported and helped put him in power and get reelected several times? President Trump isn’t the only leader who cherishes and defends loyalty.
the militarization and funding and investment in the ukraine war machine that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Russians…perhaps more? we have to accept that Russia sees the US as the biggest single threat. We continue to fund Ukraine. NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT, but we continue to make our weapons and resources available to Ukraine. That isn’t a peaceful third party. That’s called enemy.
The latest attack against strategic bombers marked a critical escalation. To suggest that the US secret police spy state was not helping Ukraine at least with Intel is preposterous. Again, emphasizing there is just no way Russia is going to trust the US.
and here is the trillion dollar question. who is running the CIA right now? or more directly, has there really been any significant changes that impact the lawless ability of the CIA to continue to conduct its own secret covert operations against Russia? My view is that there are no changes. I see Tulsi doing great work to reign in some of that power, but we cannot be so nieve to accept that the institution just folded its tent and went home. also noting: not a single CIA officer has been charged with any crimes. No dual role CIA/FBI agent Peter strikeout. He lives free and probably continues to advance covert operations as an unofficial contractor. And why wouldn’t he do that? no one bothers to watch the watchers.
Russia KNOWS ALL THESE THINGS AND SO MUCH MORE about the continued attacks by the US CIA and deep state. It really doesn’t matter to Putin that President Trump is president. He thinks in practical reality….imagine if lets say agents of the FSB were to act like this against the interests and direction of Putin and his cabinet…what do you think would happen. they would b e frog marched or just disappeared. That is why putin cannot trust the US. for “reasons” we allow the most dangerous people to actually have power, unchallenged and they do great harm to not only russia but the reputation of the United States.
If I were in Putins’ shoes, knowing these things, I would likely turn down any US president to have any role or hand in how this war alters. Yes, the US has some leverage…and that is a continued reminder to Putin, that trusting this President can actually control “his people” and live up to and honor any agreements made are about as reliable as any of the former actions taken by “this country”.
I hate this timeline.
God Bless America
Good article. I would add that Russia’s southern flank is not only inhabited by Arabs, but also Turkic peoples and Mongols with the common denominator of Islam. After the resurrection of the Orthodox Church from behind the shadows of Communism, the friction between Christian Russians and their Muslim countrymen and neighbors is increasing. In general Arabs and Turks are not fond of one another. Although Russia no longer has a common border with Iran (Persia), Persians, have a long history of battling not only Arabs, but various bands of Turkic peoples as well as infamous Mongol conquerers.
I completely agree with you on all you wrote, Thank you Sundance.