If the Russians had managed to literally march into Kyiv in just a couple of days after Feb 24 to the welcoming arms of Ukrainians, the world might have a different set of consequences to deal with. Instead, more than three weeks after the invasion, the end is nowhere in sight. The Ukrainians under Volodymyr Zelensky have not only not welcomed Vladimir Putin’s liberating army, they are fiercely fighting for their independence.
A divided and weak West where the US is perceived as a declining superpower and Europe too tired to step up was what Putin expected to see and he probably sold some parts of that story to Xi Jinping.If Ukraine had fallen without a fight, Putin is not likely to stop there. And the post Berlin Wall collapse peace dividend that has given the world so much peace to progress would have come to nought.
Besides, the US has already earmarked aid for Kyiv and has reportedly supplied military weapons to the Ukrainians.At this moment, China is the only one which may have much more to lose in the long term than Russia for almost prematurely declaring its no limits friendship with Russia so openly. US News quoted Susan Thornton, a career diplomat with deep experience in Russia and China, as saying:
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