It's not a coincidence that the two nations the US political/media class has been shrieking the loudest about lately are the two strongest nations which have refused to be absorbed into the US empire. It's never been about collusion or a virus, it's about stopping multipolarism.
This has been obvious for years but partisan narrative control masks it. More than two years ago I wrote about how Russiagate isn't about Trump or even really just about Russia, but about hamstringing the Russia-China tandem to stop China's rise.
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Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of neoconservatism, the prevailing orthodoxy in the US-centralized power alliance has been to preserve the unipolar world order at any cost. All US foreign policy has been a direct or indirect result of this agenda ever since.
Well it's not like Moscow and Beijing were passive passengers in that move. They would both have known that their ultimate desire for self-sovereignty would make them a target eventually, even if one of them sided with the US so it could destroy the other.
Both Moscow and Beijing would have known this, and the US would have known that they know this. So a decision was made to wage a new cold war on two fronts.
