Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2019 17:40:49 GMT
No, because if that happened, they would be right next door to a country with nine times their population and there would be no potential ally to save them if that country suddenly decided it wanted to steal Russia’s natural resources.
Russia is in a position, geopolitically, where it needs a balance of power. Right now, the United States is the lone world superpower, and it is pursuing a foreign policy largely hostile to Russia (which is fucking stupid, but that’s another discussion). Therefore, the balance of power doctrine dictates that Russia be friendly with China, because Russia and China together are a counterweight for the United States and its so-called allies in Europe.
In the absence of the United States, China would emerge as the sole superpower, and would have no need of Russia anymore. And Russia controls very large and important expanses of territory that once belonged to the Chinese, and both Russia and China know this. Russia’s most important seaport in the East, Vladivostok, is on land that was part of the Qing Empire’s province of Outer Manchuria:
Thing is, if China turned on Russia now, Russia can always pivot back to the United States. Tom Clancy wrote a book about such a hypothetical several years ago, The Bear and the Dragon. The Sino-Russian alignment is a marriage of convenience, which will only make sense for China until it approaches military and economic parity with the USA. At that point, cooperation between those two countries would not take place as equals, but only if Russia assumes a subservient role.
The best interest of Russia is served by the world being multipolar, and Russia being able to align with whatever side benefits it most. The current moronic foreign policy of the United States dictates that Russia favor China, but an even stronger China, capable of challenging the USA on its own and directly threatening Russia, could make Uncle Sam and the Bear friends very quickly.
Russia is in a position, geopolitically, where it needs a balance of power. Right now, the United States is the lone world superpower, and it is pursuing a foreign policy largely hostile to Russia (which is fucking stupid, but that’s another discussion). Therefore, the balance of power doctrine dictates that Russia be friendly with China, because Russia and China together are a counterweight for the United States and its so-called allies in Europe.
In the absence of the United States, China would emerge as the sole superpower, and would have no need of Russia anymore. And Russia controls very large and important expanses of territory that once belonged to the Chinese, and both Russia and China know this. Russia’s most important seaport in the East, Vladivostok, is on land that was part of the Qing Empire’s province of Outer Manchuria:
The best interest of Russia is served by the world being multipolar, and Russia being able to align with whatever side benefits it most. The current moronic foreign policy of the United States dictates that Russia favor China, but an even stronger China, capable of challenging the USA on its own and directly threatening Russia, could make Uncle Sam and the Bear friends very quickly.
