When Putin took Crimea, he was caring about his country. Russians have traditionally preferred a Republican U.S. president.
'If the "Chinese century" does indeed start around 2030, it is unlikley to last long, ending perhaps sometime around 2050, when the impact of global warming becomes unmanageable. With its main financial center at Shanghai flooded and its agricultural heartland baking in insufferable heat, China's days as a global power will be numbered.'
(McCoy, To Govern the Globe, p. 312)
The current Russian-Chinese alignment and the Russian-Indian alternative to SWIFT are natural evolutions. If Venezuela joins the Russian-Indian alternative, also open to all banks, Russia will maintain acccess to the Black sea whilst Ukraine continues Western-style decadence with $1000 hookers, snorting cocaine And a Ukrianian favorite, poppy-straw extract.