Some believe that Russia is mankind’s primary hope for winning the struggle to enable a multipolar world and bar the way to the U.S. establishing total unipolar control.
My view is that Russia quite clearly lacks the economic power to do this and that even if an offensive military option was a consideration Russia is totally outgunned.
The combined military might of the USA, its allies and NATO and the untenable notion that Russia could deal with the logistics of the aftermath make winning a world war against the West totally infeasible.
Besides, Putin has made it abundantly clear that Russia's weaponry, hypersonic or otherwise, is not going to be used to attack, only to defend.
Putin has made it clear that Russia has the means to defend herself if red lines are crossed and if provoked will respond vigorously with both conventional and asymmetric weapons. China would no doubt respond in similarly to any attack upon it.
Turning to more realistic eventualities and current challenges how able are these two nations to resist U.S. pressures and attempts to undermine their systems of governance.
I see an enormous different in their levels of vulnerability to U.S. interference, its subversion attempts, its powers of destabilization along with economic, social and political efforts to weaken them.
The USA and its allies are not going to mount a military attack on either Russia or China. Such would be irresponsible beyond belief and though many of the U.S. elites are mentally unstable and in terms of objective reasoning highly dysfunctional they are not insane. They are quite obviously using alternative means to bring Russia down than those they employed in the Middle East. While using every form of aggression possible against both, Russia presents the weakest problem for them.
Russia represents a barrier for western elites as it is resistant to most of their tactics designed to eventuate in their achieving full spectrum dominance over land, sea, air and space. The goal is to destabilize Russia to the degree that the uppermost levels of power cannot function and others more (or extremely) amenable to western influence and power take control. In this respect Russia presents a relatively easy option by comparison with China.
As Che Guevara said to Fidel Castro on their first meeting, the worst thing you can do is adopt a democratic or semi-democratic system of political control. If a nation does this it opens the way for the USA to use those democratic mechanisms to infect and subvert nations. (Che had seen this occur in Guatemala {I believe it was} when this mistake was made.) Russia in this respect is much more open to western elites exerting influence and gaining access to power when compared to China.
Putin won't be around forever and there is no way to ensure only anti-American politicians will always stand guard. He has attempted to ensure this is more likely by recent changes to the Russian constitution restricting political registrations dependent on Russian lineage and absence of NGO funding... but the U.S. is extremely proficient at getting round any barriers, even these. China on the other hand is virtually rock solid against U.S. tactics of this kind for obvious reasons.
In terms of economic power Russia lags far behind China and indeed is hardly comparable at all. The Soviet Union was indeed a superpower but with the Warsaw Pact gone the economy of the Russian Federation is comparably small, measuring around the size of that of South Korea.
The industrial base of China is immensely strong. And in terms of financial strength the Chinese tend to save more than almost any others so in terms financial capacity China is very strong indeed and in depth. China has huge financial capacity and was able to bail out the banks and governments of the West after the financial crash of 2007-08 and still hold billions of their bonds. In addition China has progressively bought up some of the West’s most profitable companies.
The USA will continue to bring advanced software and technology into play, on land, sea and space to progress its goal to achieve total manipulative control of our planet. Russia and China are the only major barriers to the U.S. achieving the full spectrum dominance which is their goal. No other nations have the power and will but these two to halt the progress of the USA toward a prison planet supervised from space and other land-based mechanism backed and enforced by overwhelming military power.
If you are looking for the West to be restrained to a tiny degree meanwhile then Russia will be your hope. However, if you wish to seethe reversal of constant U.S. aggression and regime change your hope must lie in China. The tactics being used by the USA to gain total and permanent control over our planet cannot be stymied by military means. Only the economic rise of a comparable rival can do this and therefore there is no option other than the economic rise of China to accomplish this.
By continuing its exponential economic rise both through industrial innovation, A.I. and the conduit for its goods and services via China’s ‘Bridge and Road’ initiative it will without question increase in influence throughout Europe while the USA continues to be diminished by the current pandemic and its internal dissolution and discord. U.S. influence will thence descend as China’s rises.
Russia will continue her ascendancy by making new friends and finding new markets in the east. By being a good partner across many disciplines, technologies and engaging in ever more mutually beneficial cooperative arrangements Russia will prosper along with China.
But ultimately, whether you have person reservations about China, hold a deeply prejudicial view of the nation or actively dislike her... China is, I would argue, the only truly realistic means by which the malign influence of the USA can be peacefully reduced to manageable proportions.
Only China can realistically reduce the warmongering of the USA, contain it and eventually bring it to a position of being fully quarantined and no further danger to other nations. And she can bring this about gradually as a multipolar world is achieved where every nation has its sovereignty guaranteed in perpetuity. All without a single shot being fired…
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