i’m on the US’s side, but for the fun of playing devil’s advocate, it could be that the US resisting the assent of Russia/China is the very thing that unifies t

i’m on the US’s side, but for the fun of playing devil’s advocate, it could be that the US resisting the assent of Russia/China is the very thing that unifies them under totalitarianism (common threat and all that) - China and Russia might have had their governments overthrown already if it weren’t for the US giving them something to fight against. Every group turns toward infighting once the outside threat is defeated.