' “Beijing is captivated by Trump’s interest in spheres of influence of major powers,” said Tong Zhao, a senior fellow at Carnegie China. “It’s interested in exploring whether the U.S. is willing to make major compromises in the Western Pacific, including on the issue of Taiwan and the South China Sea,” if China shows greater deference to the U.S. in the Americas.
The same calculations are in play in Moscow, as Washington pushes Ukraine to accept a peace deal that would satisfy some of Russia’s key demands, including a surrender of territory that Russian forces haven’t been able to capture in four years of war...
The Kremlin’s chief negotiator on Ukraine, Kirill Dmitriev, meanwhile, appeared positively giddy in social-media posts about Trump’s renewed aspirations to annex Greenland, especially after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that any U.S. military action to seize the island would mean the end of the NATO alliance. Such a breakup, in turn, would create a major boon for Russian ambitions to regain former satellites and possession in Europe, starting with the Baltics—while also spurring an inevitable rapprochement between European nations and China.'
@Cje95 furiously and desperately denies the US is in retreat into a regional hegemony due to its military being crippled buy Chinas stranglehold over strategic supply chains. Trumps words and actions say otherwise.
Keep calming the peasants @Cje95 - its what you are paid to do after all.
China and Russia see new opportunities as U.S. focuses on Americas, while Europe braces for clash over Greenland.
https://archive.ph/bIPYm
https://www.wsj.com/world/trumps-plan-to-run-the-hemisphere-scares-friends-and-puzzles-foes-819a1841
' “Beijing is captivated by Trump’s interest in spheres of influence of major powers,” said Tong Zhao, a senior fellow at Carnegie China. “It’s interested in exploring whether the U.S. is willing to make major compromises in the Western Pacific, including on the issue of Taiwan and the South China Sea,” if China shows greater deference to the U.S. in the Americas.
The same calculations are in play in Moscow, as Washington pushes Ukraine to accept a peace deal that would satisfy some of Russia’s key demands, including a surrender of territory that Russian forces haven’t been able to capture in four years of war...
The Kremlin’s chief negotiator on Ukraine, Kirill Dmitriev, meanwhile, appeared positively giddy in social-media posts about Trump’s renewed aspirations to annex Greenland, especially after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that any U.S. military action to seize the island would mean the end of the NATO alliance. Such a breakup, in turn, would create a major boon for Russian ambitions to regain former satellites and possession in Europe, starting with the Baltics—while also spurring an inevitable rapprochement between European nations and China.'
@Cje95 furiously and desperately denies the US is in retreat into a regional hegemony due to its military being crippled buy Chinas stranglehold over strategic supply chains.
Trumps words and actions say otherwise.
Keep calming the peasants @Cje95 - its what you are paid to do after all.