Thread by @generalsvr_en

#Putin has a different situation with #Chinese leader #XiJinping. Putin sends messages to the Chinese leadership: "either you, dear Xi Jinping and comrades, give us weapons to win the war, or we have no choice but to use nuclear weapons in the conflict with #Ukraine."
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#China does not want a nuclear conflict in #Europe at all, but they cannot really help #Russia either. Also, they cannot oppose Russia, risking losing a huge and weakening neighbor from their sphere of interests, and, in the very near future, from their sphere of influence.
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#XiJinping is trying to build a complex system of keeping #Chinese positions in contact with the West and, at the same time, get #Russia, like an overripe apple that has fallen to his feet, without allowing a nuclear conflict.
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#XiJinping's visit to Moscow is a forced action for the #Chinese leader, but it will definitely not be a turning point in the realization of #Putin's geopolitical ambitions. The Chinese leadership dreams of getting #Russia, weakened by defeat in the war, into...
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the sphere of its total influence and will most likely achieve this result by offering minimal conditions for maintaining the #Putin regime, if not throughout #Russia, then in most of Siberia and the Far East. It is a big mistake for #XiJinping to negotiate with Putin.
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It is a mistake for #Trump to rely on #Putin's help. Tensions within the elites in the Russian government are growing every day, and Putin has every chance of ending before fulfilling his promises to the #Chinese leadership and long before the possible election of Trump.
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