Comments by "Aristocles Athenaioi" (@aristoclesathenaioi4939) on "Will Xi help Putin and aid Russia at the risk of US secondary sanctions?" video.

  1. China makes a serious mistake thinking the Biden Administration is weak. The CCP has little regard for laws and treaties and fails to comprehend anyone respecting limitations imposed by a treaty organization such as NATO. The Biden Administration has shown great restraint by avoiding a direct confrontation with Russia while doing much to provide weapons to Ukraine. If you want to demonstrate that NATO exists purely for defensive purposes then you must avoid using the NATO treaty as a means to attack Russia without Russia having first attacked a NATO. It should make the CCP concerned that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused the EU countries to consider having an EU military as well as causing Germany to reverse seventy years of foreign policy and now will expand it's military budget. The Biden Administration accomplished that through diplomatic means. The behavior of the CCP in the Pacific has pushed Japan to reverse the same seventy year policy against using the military in foreign engagements. The Biden Administration encouraged that as well. What the Biden Administration has done in Europe using the NATO treaty to get the European Country to rearm, and using Mutual Defense Agreements in the Pacific to increase weapons sold to Taiwan, to encourage the Japanese to expand their self defense to include any country attacking Taiwan should give the CCP pause. Attacking Taiwan before the end of the Biden Administration would provide a political gift to Biden. The US can cloth itself in self righteous indignation and even make comparisons with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A war with China would close political divisions in the US. There is another aspect to a war with China that as a US citizen it shames me to admit, racism would help fuel a war against China in a way that a war against Russia never would. The white supremacists including those in the Republican Party support Putin eventhough Russia invading Ukraine involves "white" people fighting one another. When it comes to China then all the political parties unite in hostility to China. The white-supremacists would support a war on China for reasons alone. The fact the US would have Japan, Taiwan and Korea as allies works in favor of white-supremacists thinking because it would be the US, a "white" country, leading Asian countries to counter an Asian adversary. A war between China and the US has some many ugly overtones that it makes it disgusting to imagine. However the CCP could deliberately walk into such a war because of the CCP already using Han racism as an excuse for the genocide of the Uyghurs. We could easily end up with a Third World War in which China and Russian are allied against an coalition of US, EU, Japan and ANZ (don't forget Australia, it can function as a huge air base). The CCP could cause all of that to occur if they attacked Taiwan.
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