Seems pretty stupid that western countries were pushing NATO east and pushing Russia closer to China. Seems like a big strategic blunder, and could not have been better for China than if it was orchestrated by Xi himself, which it might well have been.

Russia is not the big threat, second strike capability notwithstanding: All the propaganda about Russia hacking elections and having thousands of officials and poiticians and people in their pocket all over the world were obvious lies and have been exposed as such.