While there are undoubtedly aspects of the NATO sanctions against Russia that create opportunities for China, one should not conflate alliance with opportunism.
China even acknowledges they are not jumping in on either side.
Zhao said that when it came to Ukraine, Beijing would not be forced to “choose a side or adopt a simplistic friend-or-foe approach. We should, in particular, resist the Cold War thinking and bloc confrontation.”
In true propagandistic form, the Associated Press makes the sophomoric syllogism that if China is not against Russia, then China is for Russia:
China says it is not taking sides in the conflict but it has declared a “no limits” partnership with Russia and refuses to condemn the invasion. Beijing routinely amplifies Russian disinformation about the conflict, and does not refer to it as an invasion or a war in keeping with Russian practice.
Lost in the rhetoric is the geopolitical reality that China is a rival to the United States. The notion that Beijing would overlook that to join an anti-Russia sanctions scheme is simply naive.
Why wouldn’t they do this in this “dog eat dog” world? How sad that there are no good guys in this struggle! We the people suffer while these egomaniacal leaders fight for their “Spheres of Influence!” Nothing has changed for millennia! Humans ( mostly men) have learned nothing! Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, The British Empire, Pax Americana are all the same! It is about Power, not about Peace or Justice!😣😖😭😢
The curious logic behind the manifold forms of defensive war is they are all predicated on something our "leaders" would do were they in the position of our "enemies".
Whether it's Putin's invasion of Ukraine or Nunn Lugar "threat reduction", the level of projection required to justify these efforts is both astounding and terrifying.
Why wouldn’t they do this in this “dog eat dog” world? How sad that there are no good guys in this struggle! We the people suffer while these egomaniacal leaders fight for their “Spheres of Influence!” Nothing has changed for millennia! Humans ( mostly men) have learned nothing! Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, The British Empire, Pax Americana are all the same! It is about Power, not about Peace or Justice!😣😖😭😢
The curious logic behind the manifold forms of defensive war is they are all predicated on something our "leaders" would do were they in the position of our "enemies".
Whether it's Putin's invasion of Ukraine or Nunn Lugar "threat reduction", the level of projection required to justify these efforts is both astounding and terrifying.
We are governed by psychopaths.