Interestingly if you read Mao's interview with Edgar Snow https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm https://www.marxis

Interestingly if you read Mao's interview with Edgar Snow https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-work... You can see a lot of parallel with the current Ukraine situation. Especially the first QA Question: Under what conditions do you think China can defeat and destroy the forces of Japan? Answer: Three conditions are required: first, the establishment of an anti-Japanese united front in China; second, the formation of an international anti-Japanese united front; third, the rise of the revolutionary movement of the people in Japan and the Japanese colonies. From the standpoint of the Chinese people, the unity of the people of China is the most important of the three conditions. Condition 2 is true right now, while I am not sure about condition 1 in Eastern Ukraine and condition 3 will be true if Russian citizen fed up with all the sanctions I guess.