Perhaps Russia and China also realize that to retain power they need bodies that will fight
for them, and that control of assets of people give them leverage to coerce more people
to act as cannon fodder.

Powerful government is ALWAYS the ENEMY of the PEOPLE.
Government Can't Be Trusted in ANY Country.

I firmly believe Xi's attitude toward Biden is simple. When your enemy is digging a deep hole, (Green Climate crap) throw him a bigger shovel!

I think the CBDC thing is just hedging bets, both are also buying precious metals. I think anyone with any foresight can see the end of the road for the dollar, BRICS and CBDC are simply moving in on a vacuum created by us.

I agree with you that Russia wants nothing to do with globalization, they are looking out for their own best interest, if Russia had 14 bio-weapons labs north of the Canadian boarder, we would have invaded too (well if Biden wasn’t in office).

China for me is less clear, ether its in control or its opportunistic, not sure which. Ether they are the driving force for this facade known as globalization (actually communism) or they are simply taking advantage of it. I can see themselves imagining China as the global authority in the world. I think Taiwan will be invaded but I also see China with other issues the rest of the world will not have to deal with, the demographic decline of its population will be devastating on its society.

Truly, I think the driving force behind globalization is us, we are the bad guys. The other stuff from Russia and China is just posturing for position when the shit hits the fan. i.e. looking for cover.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and a lot of Russians, do not want anything to do with the US and their amoral, drug-and crime-ridden cancel culture.

Once Kiev/NATO has been kicked out of the ethnic-Russian areas of Ukraine, Russia will likely erect another "Iron Curtain," to keep the West OUT.

Putin has a PH D in Economics, is an honest man, sincerely wants to help Russia complete their recovery from Communism, and is rebuilding all the great Christian cathedrals throughout Russia. He has stated many times, Russian will be run on Christian principles.

When I was in Russia in 2008? or so, VVP fired all the Oblast (State) governors. I asked my Russian friend, "Isn't that, kind of...wrong?" She replied. "Well, they are all corrupt, so maybe, among the new appointees, there will be a few that are not corrupt."

Slow and small steps, forward...

Russia and Chine hate each other, have for hundreds of years

they are allied now because Russia needs an ally and China see it in their benefit to ally with Russia, to betray them latter

China wants Taiwan, wants to turn Japan into glass, wants to prevent India from moving north (for land) and China wants the resources in Siberia and wants the land in Australia

Russia wants to be relevant and a Great power again, does not want to surrender to the same diabolic forces that have gained power in the West

if anyone is controlled, it is the traitors of the West (biden, leaders of NATO countries), being blackmailed for their child sex trafficking and satanic worship

Don't want to think about it much....But, I think all this could severely alter America in a way that's very bad for our children. (That's a nice way of putting it...)

If Russia and China are controlled, then our financial irresponsibly has paved the way for it to happen. We might as well have taken all the money printed made a big pile in the back yard, soaked it with lamp oil and set a match to it. We (our government) took our greatest opportunity and pisseditaway. No one fault but our own. We let it happen.
If you don't like what you are seeing better hold on to your girdle Margret, cause an ill wind is about to blow. BRICS is coming and when it does, we are so screwed.

If the are, in fact, Gog and Magog, then yes they are controlled...by evil..However, Some think that they too, are battling a deep state as well.

I told my daughter not to get confused about the Russia/Ukraine conflict. There are no good guys at this point.

This is all way too complicated. Can't tell who is doing what or where.

Just as a side note...I find it ironic that a site dedicated to Ayn Rand has posters that mostly sympathize with Russia.

I see Soros as the linchpin, the one who would gladly bring down all, just for the fun of the game. Puting banned him, he is angry about that. Chile, Hungary and mroe. But Obama had him as a most frequent Oval Office visitor. Binen in tied to him, to get his UN ordered depopulation via migrants, whom he hoped whould bring new viruses to the immune deficient vaxed. Then Soros took over Biden policy, via Soros funded Gov. for Impact in DC. Meanwhile Soros and Biden control corruptUkraine, with Soros funding the idiot Zelinskyy into office. They are power hungry and determined to keep the Ukraine corrupt. Biden wants to bring in NATO and think he is tough.I do not blame Xi, not that I would want his CCP, but the man is smarter than Biden. Both Obama and Biden were terrible statemen, disrespectful to many, esp. Russia. Putin has to save face. I was hearing from a friend in Ukraind, until it got all totlaitarian over there. She would tell me how they at first like freedom from Russia, but how it all went bad, they were living on a shoestring, when once thye traveled Europe. She sent a photo of her modest well dept house. Ukraine corruption was not exactly Democracy. The UN and NATO seem to be machines of depopulation and military industrial compex thinlomg/ Of sp,epme dpes mpt get cpmtrp; pf tje IS soon, and ban Soros, we are in trouble. Teh man went on US TV, said he loved what he did for the Nai's, "Best years of my life," he said. He also said he saw people as "pieces on a geme board." Very disturbed way to justify his cruelty. He swore to destroy the US economy during Obama, but was his buddy!

Russia didn't let Cuba fire rockets at us in the 1960's, Russia will not stand with China against the United States, N

Having read some history of China Xi is patterning himself after the emperors of the past despite the CCP's control of the military. Also, based on numerous articles I read on Putin, he is answerable to the oligarchs.

For a long time I believed Xi was the one controlling the globalists. Now I think he is merely similar, a second Klaus Schwab in a race with the first. If they get their way they'll likely divide the world up between themselves.

As for Putin, I've been hearing from some good sources (I recommend VivaBarnesLaw and The Duran, both podcasts on https://Rumble.com) and I believe Putin is very much like Trump in that he's the only important Russian politician who has the patience and good sense not to escalate the war. His competitors in Russia are all hardliners who look at the Soviet Union as the good old days and want it back. So if our troops or even some loner were to blow Putin away, we wouldn't get peace, we'd get a much more ruthless war leader, one we don't want to be fighting.

This article is so full of names,places, and acronyms that I have no clue about. But it seems like it should be important

Can't believe this...Ukraine is corrupt?...do you now who the richest man in the world is? Do you know why "the second most powerful military" was revealed to be a paper tiger.

That Russia was pushed into this war is laughable. Pray tell what made Russian invade and annex Crimea. Communist Russia is the most aggressive nation in the world. See below:
Countries invaded by communist Russia
1917-22 Ukraine, Belarus, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Tuva and Mongolia invaded and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1917-20 Kazakhstan invaded and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1920 Overthrow of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1920 Overthrow of the First Republic of Armenia and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1920 Overthrow of the Democratic Republic of Georgia and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1939 Eastern Poland invaded and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1939-1940 Finland invaded and a portion of Finland incorporated into the Soviet Union
1940 Estonia invaded and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1940 Latvia invaded and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1940 Lithuania invaded and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1940 Bessarabia invaded and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1940 Northern Bukovina invaded and incorporated into the Soviet Union
1949-50 Assists North Korean invasion of South Korea
1960’s-70’s Assists North Vietnam invasion of South Vietnam
1979-89 Afghanistan invaded
1992 Transnistria occupied
2014 Luhansk occupied
2014 Donetsk occupied
2014 Crimea invaded and incorporated into Russia
2022 Ukraine invaded