Putin’s power slips away to China as Ukraine war continues to drain Russian military
“Russia is mortgaging its future to Beijing and is, of course, not getting this for free.”
Outgoing Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg tells The Times that Putin is becoming increasingly beholden to President Xi of China for the sake of his war in Ukraine. Defence editor Larisa Brown says CIA and MI6 chiefs will be “looking closely” at any intelligence that suggests China could could be supplying Russia with weapons.
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This war will run and run until it goes nuclear. The future is incredibly grim.
If the world gets though this, everyone needs to sit down and disarm the world. We can't keep doing this for another 500 years. It's not fair on the young.😡
Putin has taken his BEGGAR BOWL to China. Like a Chukchi Oliver Twist he's gone groveling to Xi. "Please Sir. Can I have some more Golf Carts and Battle Mopeds".
Nato is the weak link in the war.
Pootin 😂is 🎪 Circus 🎪 🙄
Want to "Trump proof" NATO? Have each country spend the agreed upon 2% of GDP at a minimum on their militaries. Too many freeloaders (looking at you, Germany, Italy, and France) expecting the US to protect them without the ability to reciprocate.
It always was China
If Trump is elected, he will become the dictator he has promised. This should frighten the entire world.
China, the international loan shark, is going to treat Russia, ultimately, as it treats its other debtor clients, as stooges and lackeys who must jump to Beijing's tune if they want forgiveness on the debt repayments they can't make. China is salivating at the prospects of acquiring resource rich territories in the far Eastern regions of Russia.
Russia is chinas gas store basically,but usa and china trade way more
How do you guys not know Russia and China are partners and america is gonna join them in the next elections?
Imagine if Taiwan invaded China, and the CCP wasn't able to stop them… that's what happened to Russia. Pathetic.
the american and chinese are too alike as far as trade ,trade=peace both nations and populations understand that. also propaganda against china has failed in the u s a . the reason is of china and the u s a like each other. every interaction most of us have had with each other as far as work and just dealing in everyday ways we here want a stronger relation with the chinese. russia is yesterday.
Maybe we should now pass the "Protect Donald Trump Gun Law" and the Republicans in Congress might just agree to sign the bill. 😂😂😂
Putin, governor of the province of Erluosi of China.
Good example why NATO is not working
this british accent is riddickuosly annoying
Let the world speak
Putin growing his army to 1.5 million: Daniel Davis
Putler is Xi's puppet
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China is more west than west they will invade russia no problem
Nice to see you divert attention from your favourite anti-hero Putin and focus on the charismatic von Stoltenberg. When will you do features on other such positive characters as Zelensky and Ryan Routh?
Donald Trump needs to remember that Article 5 was invoked only once in history and that was following the 9/11 terror attacks
China should annex the eastern 3rd of Russia.
I'm no fan of Putin but the truth is he wanted peace talks early on. It was the US that wants world leaders to dance to their tune. Also Boris the buffoon scuppered the last attempt. Western media is full of propaganda
Nations don't have 'friends', they have 'interests'. ( Lord Palmerston I think…?)
I think XI is a sensible man and realises that Putin has simply lost the plot
NATO MUST STOP EVIL PUTIN NOW
Jens or mr. Stoltenberg .. was the best .. he managed to de-escalate the situation, whilst sending a message to president Putin ..
Terrible sound quality. Journalists interviewing journalists. Lots of "erm" filler. Erm.
China needs the US more than Russia. When/If the US stops buying from China, mass unemployment, pushes the banking system over the edge. Big unrest.
So we know that China is helping Russia, and yet we sit around DEBATING how much we should help Ukraine. Two years of DEBATING and RUNNING SCARED. It does not matter how big our economies are and how advanced our weapons are – if we don't have the WILL to win.
Biden isn’t making that decision because he’s about to leave office. That decision will affect Kamala good or bad. Unfortunately our political situation at the moment dictates that.
Putin can’t use a tactical nuke without it affecting Russia also. Plus, are we even sure that they work?