Hello, I used to be a nadir of the user base but now I have come out of my hole to address an autistic concern of mine. To begin, I have noticed that China and Russia seem to have been making pretty much useless and empty threats too the DPRK (North Korea) regarding their missile tests and usually stop enforcing sanctions after a certain period of time. Additionally, this situation makes me think that Russia, North Korea, and China may be in some sort of secret alliance of some kind, I mean think about it if the U.S tries to invade North Korea there presence in Europe would not be as great and that generally leaves the Baltic region open to invasion and once the U.S enters North Korea China could step in and flank U.S soldiers and ultimately killing the invasion force. Furthermore, this would leave South Korea alone, and Japan very afraid possibly leading to them joining forces with the Russians, North Koreans, and Russia?
The next triple alliance?
pretty good but more important question:
what anime do you watch?
No lad. They don't make any concrete moves on North Korea because it's in their strategic best interests to see the regime hang on.
>North Korea falls
>American forces bordering Russia and China
>massive refugee crisis that is going to inevitably spill into China and Russia
I started off by watching one punch with my friend but I am not a huge fan of anime, I will also be gone for a bit getting snacks at my local shoppers.
Ah yes, fear the chinks and ruskies and nork gooks. Do so, by all means. Soon you will suck chink balls and your women will belong to the Russians and the Norks will have your penises surgically attached to them prosthetically. Bow before the mighty Chinks. The Bulgarians can have the nigger women.
Look up Silk Road 2.0, Eurasia is diversifying land-based logistics to counter Atlanticist domination of the high seas (and thus global trade). Every Eurasian country is jumping on the bandwagon because they're sick of getting slapped with sanctions or having their sea freight stopped for inspection.
Bulgaria is going to get half of its population killed again.
Russia and China hate each other, and have since the 1960's. China views Asia as its sphere of influence, and so does Russia. There is about as much chance for them getting along as there was for pre-WW1 France and Germany. They want the same chunks of land under their control. I wouldn't say they hate each other, they just don't really like the idea of sharing.
Furthermore, neither of them are superpowers. Even combining their forces, they don't have anything approaching the level of force projection that NATO does. Their carriers are shit, their experience in inter-continental logistics is shit, and their track record for inciting nations to join their side willingly is abysmal. Most Baltic states hate the Russians, and most Asian states hate the Chinese. They are both just horrible allies.
As it stands right now, they are both regional powers, and regional rivals.
Could they become superpowers, and allies, if they made the right moves going forward? Yes. Russia needs to get off its dependency on the oil industry and branch out into higher tech to avoid dutch disease. China needs to stop being an asshole to its neighbors and spend its now depleted wealth wisely and avoid both an incoming real estate bubble and demographic crisis. And both need to invest in real carriers and start learning how to operate continent spanning campaigns.
The US didn't get to where it is today by magic, it took us 150 years of slow buildup and experience to become a superpower. You can't become one just because you want to be one. Japan learned that the hard way, and now it's just our bitch.
But the truth is that the Russians are headed for another economic crisis, and China is about to get the biggest demographic kick in the ass in human history. Both are too proud to admit their faults.
>Russia and China hate each other
>I wouldn't say they hate each other
kek at myself.
What I mean to say is that they don't like each other, but don't desire the other's death.
Both are cozying up to each other out of economic and military necessity. They have realized the west cannot be negotiated with and they have also realized that they need each other more than either of them need the west. China needs energy, weapons, and raw materials while Russia needs consumer goods, financing, and help constructing central Asian logistical infrastructure. They are both anticipating the coming crash and are looking at it as an opportunity to move away from their current model of exporting to their enemies. As for their military problems with blue-water navies and inter-continental logistics, none of that matters since they are only trying to consolidate control of Eurasia.