Ukraine Crisis Kicks Off New Superpower Struggle

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Ukraine Crisis Kicks Off New Superpower Struggle

February 23, 2022 at 8:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/02/23/ukraine-crisis-kicks-off-new-superpower-struggle/

"SNIP........

“Russia’s audacious military mobilization in and around Ukraine is the first major skirmish of a new order in international politics, with three major powers jostling for position in ways that threaten America’s primacy,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The challenges are different than those the U.S. and its network of alliances faced in the Cold War. Russia and China have built a thriving partnership based in part on a shared interest in diminishing U.S. power. Unlike the Sino-Soviet bloc of the 1950s, Russia is a critical gas supplier to Europe, while China isn’t an impoverished, war-ravaged partner but the world’s manufacturing powerhouse with an expanding military.”

......SNIP"

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1. Maybe that will help Biden and Democrats in

2022.

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2. China issued a statement day's ago saying Russia needed to find a diplomatic solution

Is that really such a “Ive got your back” statement? China needs the US. Any alliance between the 2 will find Russia the subservient member