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What's the point of having a Eurasian equivalent of NATO if they won't even support Vlad?

None of Vlad's CTSO Eurasian allies outside of Belarus are willing to lift a finger to give Russia material support and China is keeping Putin at arms length.

Central Asia Drifts Out of Russia’s Orbit as Ukraine War Rages

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Russia is losing influence over former Soviet nations in Central Asia as the war in Ukraine increasingly strains Moscow’s political, military and economic sway, analysts told The Moscow Times.

“There is growing friction between the Kremlin, its proxies and local Central Asian elites,” said Paul Stronski, an expert on Russia’s relations with Central Asia at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Not only are Central Asia officials concerned about the precedent set by Moscow’s attack on a former Soviet country, but they are also using Russia’s declining influence to re-orientate their economies, according to experts.

Russia’s diminished role was on display at last week’s meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Uzbekistan where President Vladimir Putin was apparently chided by the Indian and Chinese leaders and kept waiting by heads of state including Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov.

But a new assertiveness against Moscow has been on display for months, according to Stronski.

In one of the most striking instances, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev rejected Russian calls to recognize eastern Ukraine’s pro-Moscow separatists in June when on stage with Putin at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.

And last month, Tokayev’s Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev pointedly denounced Soviet repressions.

“Local Central Asian elites are unnerved about the Ukraine precedent,” said Stronski.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022...-of-russias-orbit-as-ukraine-war-rages-a78842
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Cypress said:
China's Xi unlikely to offer Putin military or financial aid for Russia's war on Ukraine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...w-putin-a-lifeline-as-ukraine-struggles-mount
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This is why a strong and powerful and globally-involved U.S.A. is vital to world peace. No one wants to risk economic chaos by allying with the pariah Putin, especially China.
 
Putin is now caught between a rock and a hard place, now lets see how he deals with this.
 
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Jarod said:
Biden has Putin in a box, where he belongs.
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Absolutely true.

Biden may appear to have diminished in his mental abilities, but he is still intelligent enough to choose intelligent advisors -- and listen to them. Blustering and bullying and threatening with nukes is not nearly as effective as quietly removing allies from a rogue actor like Putin, or Kim, or any other dangerous state.
 
BidenCo. Has Intimidated China Into Not Supporting Putin's War

The US State Department said they have not seen any indication that China is preparing to assist Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or assist Russia in evading sanctions.

“We are looking at every single bit of information we have,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said. “We have seen nothing as of yet at least to indicate that the PRC is taking a different approach when it comes to security assistance, when it comes to efforts to systematically help Russia evade sanctions," he said.
Price said the US is “continuing to watch” what China does on Ukraine, and said that remarks by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi indicate that China has “a degree of unease with what Russia is doing in Ukraine.”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Yi on Friday at the United Nations and “highlighted the implications if the PRC [People's Republic of China] were to provide support to Moscow’s invasion of a sovereign state,” according to the State Department readout of the meeting.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-09-26-22/index.html
 
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