Russia and the US shed their personal differences aside to take on the common foe

T. Belman. In Feb 2016, Alex Maistrovoy and I wrote Contemplating, a US-Russia Alliance in which we foresaw such an alliance.

September 5, 2021 | 7 Comments »

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  2. Russian officials never express hatred of neither China nor US. None are called “enemies”, not even adversaries.
    At the same time China is a natural enemy for Russia, while US is a natural ally.

    Russia repossessing Crimea, and even the Donbas and Lugansk regions are none of the US concerns, and are both morally and historically just.
    Of course Russia should not be allowed to occupy the Baltics, and they are not even dreaming about it.

    So Russia has no conflicting interests with the US.
    But they both have major strategic conflicting interests with China.

    Unless Russia strongly allies itself with the US, the West and Japan, China will eventually snatch Siberia from Russia.
    The only reason why Russia allies itself with China and Iran is because of the anti-Russian US actions.

  3. I doubt this will happen. Americans are too stupid for Russians, and Chinese are executing a ‘strategic’ plan decades in the making, while Americans are tactical thinkers.
    Russians may use the USA as “useful idiots” to gain leverage v CCP without shouldering the whole costs of cyber warfare.

  4. Excellent point, Bear. And thanks for agreeing with me.

    Actually, I don’t think any of the three great powers hate each other. The U.S. has issues with both China and Russia. On the other hand, the U.S. and China continue to have an immense amount of trade with each other. They are heavily invested in each others’ economies. There is also some cooperation between them in the areas of scientific and medical research. Although as many investigative journalista and physicians have demonstrated, that has not been demonstrated such a good thing for the United States.

    I’m glad that the U.S. and Russia are beginning to cooperate in the area of cybersecurity. This is in their mutual interest. But there are still areas of conflict. The Russians, in particular, are unhappy with the USG’s recent promise to provide more military aid to Ukraine, which the Russians have come to think of as an enemy in recent years. The government-owned Russian press has is very critical of the United States, but not of China.

    But I don’t think that the senior officials of these three great powers hate each other. None of them wants to go to war with each other. Of course, when you have three great powers, and many smaller ones as well, armed to the teeth, and at least nine countries with nuclear weapons, war by miscalculation is always a danger.

    The border conflict between India and both China and Pakistan is likely to continue, and that, not the relationship between the three great powers, is what concerns TFG. It obviously boosts Indian morale to believe that both the U.S. and Russia side with them against China. Actually, neither of these two countries is much interested in the three-way China-Pakistan vs.India conflict, or is taking sides in it. I believe India is on its own, except perhaps for its arms purchases from Israel.

  5. Russia and Chinese military train to together from time to time including recently. Enemies do not do this. I agree with Adam and when that happens it is usually correct.

  6. No Russian official has expressed hatred for China or referred to it as Russia’s enemy. I have not seen any quotations from Russian officials criticizing China. TFG doesn’t identify its sources, as usual. There are brief snapshots of newspaper articles, but the newspapers are not identified. Nor are the authors of these articles.

    I believe that TFG is just a propaganda channel which tries to boost the morale of English-speaking Indians and people of Indian ancestry abroad, in order to reasure them that India has powerful friends and allies in its struggle with China, and that the Indian army is very strong and able to defeat both China and Pakistan. Neither of these claims are true.