He’s a bit late to the party.
I think they’re just building excuses to explain how Russia is winning because they spent two years convincing us that Russia was falling apart any day now.
I think this is to try and set the stage for forcing Europe to sanction/decouple from China just as they forced them to do that to Russia. It’s setting up pretexts of “well we’ve already tried sanctioning Russia but that didn’t stop them and now we know why it’s because the Chinese are supporting them so now if you --erm we that is-- want to win in the Ukraine you have to punish China and break up this friendship” which obviously won’t drive the Chinese to drop the Russians and their support for them but could drive Europeans into further self-sabotaging and imploding their economies which may allow the US to drive some skilled workers from select skilled industries to a limited re-shoring in the US.
That or just laying out excuses before the hammer falls and they lose so they can seamlessly use the loss in Ukraine to say “hey, we lost in Ukraine BUT it wasn’t our fault, China did it, China supported Russia so it’s not our fault”. In either case it’s an excuse to turn up the heat on China, to talk more national security threat nonsense and imposes embargoes on high tech goods from China to Europe, and so on.
I very much agree that’s part of the angle there.
bro is living under a rock, just discovered that kissinger died.
