Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "What would happen if Russia collapsed?" video.
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@errormatrix4159 Russia has always had a certain degree of tepidness in its relations with China. Putin (whatever you think of him, he's an excellent judge of power and personality) doesn't trust anyone, and China is a powerful neighbor with whom it is important to have a relationship with that is neither too cozy nor too cold. Russia under Putin will give up nothing, but China, under Xi, is fully aware of that, and frankly, they have other issues that they recognize as having higher priority than any territorial claims that could antagonize Russia.
Russia does not want China to be an overpowering neighbor, but neither does it want the United States to be able to work its will globally. Right now Russia is closer to China, both in interests and in philosophy, then it is with the West, and particularly with the United States. China is much more appreciative of Russia's position, and of Russia's needs than the West has proven to be. While Russia is probably not a reliable ally of China, they certainly cannot be counted on to work against them.
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@MrFasho123 It's hard to think of anyone finding it in their interest to support Mongolian territorial claims just because of the sheer amount of contries that would be negatively affected. Mongolia would have to become a superpower on its own to even attempt to enforce any claims based on the Mongol conquest of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—but again, that's just politics. China could actually make claims on Yuan Dynasty territorial holdings, as they consider it to be a Chinese dynasty, despite the ruling class being exclusively made up of Mongols. Of course China doesn't consider other Mongol khanates to be part of the Yuan dynasty though, so central Asia, Russia and eastern Europe are probably safe from Chinese claims.
As for Israel, the Jews of Europe considered it a territorial homeland and from their perspective it was a valid territorial claim. European support for the establishment of the state, in my opinion, was driven largely by guilt associated withthe holocaust and the recognition of institutional antisemitism over centuries. American support of Israel, which came later, appears to be driven by the legitimate representation of and sympathy for a strong and prosperous Jewish constituency within the United States as well as anti-Arab (and other peoples within the region) sentiment derived originally from the OPEC oil crisis and PLO terrorism in the seventies but exacerbated by the Iranian Revolution, Al Qaeda terrorism, and ISIS terrorism more recently, as well as opportunism and disappointment regarding former Soviet clients who refuse to collapse now that our former adversary has left the scene.
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