(#5134) China and Russia are no match for the US and European Union

      It is quite obvious that China and Russia are flailing in their attempt to be bullies on the national stage. Neither has the moral high ground nor the wherewithal to bully their way over the top of the rest of us. Instead they are searching around the edges to find a crease in the defense of democracy to undermine our commitment to it. They will fail of course because when it comes to resolve the western nations are not to be fooled with. Most all understand this however the Chinese and Russians are slow learners. Just like all other slow learners they will be taught harshly the simple message they should have paid attention to when the lesson was first taught.
     Ukraine will continue to teach Russia that no matter how badly the putins of the world want to dominate, putin and xi will only learn the disappointment of it. The Chinese have mainly stayed out of the limelight but we all know they support the Russian invasion of Ukraine and that China has designs on Taiwan that are similar to Russia and it's wont to expand beyond its own borders. Both are in need of being scolded beyond words and if they don't figure that out the reckoning gets much more painful. Time will tell but at minimum Russia is first up for the woodshed treatment because like spoiled children the brutes in the kremlin think they are infallible.
     A reworking of how the world order plays out is happening and the world will find out that the democracies of the world will be our future and the tyrants like putin and xi will find out that their days are quickly becoming numbered. There is no path forward for them and they are struggling with that very concept now. Which is why there is so much bluster from them. They still think they can bluff us but what they don't get either is that we don't care about their threats. Because nothing they can do will save them in the end. No matter what they will be finished as world leaders and the only unknown at the moment is what will their situation be when the dust has settled on this current idiocy of theirs.