martybegan
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yes, link is to a biased site, but it refers to a NY Times pieces that is behind a paywall.
<font color="red"><i>America is BACK: Brandon's Big Plan for Stopping Russia From Invading Was to BEG CHINA TO PRESSURE RUSSIA; <br>Instead of Helping Brandon, China Betrayed Him and Told Russia All About His Undignified Groveling</i></font>
This means the Biden administration knew this was coming for months, tried to get China to intercede, and failed.
What this also tells me is Europe is going to sit this one out probably, because their economies are tied to Russian Energy supplies, namely Russian Natural Gas.
<font color="red"><i>America is BACK: Brandon's Big Plan for Stopping Russia From Invading Was to BEG CHINA TO PRESSURE RUSSIA; <br>Instead of Helping Brandon, China Betrayed Him and Told Russia All About His Undignified Groveling</i></font>
Over three months, senior Biden administration officials held half a dozen urgent meetings with top Chinese officials in which the Americans presented intelligence showing Russia's troop buildup around Ukraine and beseeched the Chinese to tell Russia not to invade, according to U.S. officials.
Each time, the Chinese officials, including the foreign minister and the ambassador to the United States, rebuffed the Americans, saying they did not think an invasion was in the works. After one diplomatic exchange in December, U.S. officials got intelligence showing Beijing had shared the information with Moscow, telling the Russians that the United States was trying to sow discord -- and that China would not try to impede Russian plans and actions, the officials said.
The previously unreported talks between American and Chinese officials show how the Biden administration tried to use intelligence findings and diplomacy to persuade a superpower it views as a growing adversary to stop the invasion of Ukraine, and how that nation, led by President Xi Jinping, persistently sided with Russia even as the evidence of Moscow's plans for a military offensive grew over the winter.
This means the Biden administration knew this was coming for months, tried to get China to intercede, and failed.
What this also tells me is Europe is going to sit this one out probably, because their economies are tied to Russian Energy supplies, namely Russian Natural Gas.