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Bruno Maçães on Europe, Eurasia, Russia, China, and Ukraine | Thinking in Dark Times # 5

Explaining Ukraine

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Russia Will Come Under Chinese Control - I Don't Think That's Possible

Xi Jinping is concerned with the next five or ten years. He probably believes that we are not going to see a widespread collapse of Russia. I don't think Russia will break apart. And another thing which interests me is that Russia is now trying to present itself to the whole, let's call it, anti-Western world. But short of those scenarios, I think Beijing will probably be thinking in a slightly different way. They will be thinking that the U.S. had to deal with two main adversaries, two France, essentially. and it's in the US.

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