And nowhere did I say let Russia annex Ukraine, what I’m saying is it shouldn’t have got there and if it did was it all Putin?
Take the Chinese in the pacific and their Island building, in the west this is largely reported as China getting stronger, more beligerent and therefore a danger that needs to be stopped.
But since World War II, the US has pretty much rejected every Chinese effort to lower tensions, it (China) wanted trade, it was weak and it had internal problems, instead if you look at US bases around the world, 800 in 70 countries, the US ringed the USSR and PDRC with naval and missile facilities, China the aggressive one we have to worry about, has one in Djiboutti.
Military spending, the US spends more than the next eight countries (5 of which are her allies) combined and nearly 3 times that of China, but the horror of them putting an airstrip in the Spratly’s led to Western Navies all setting off for the south China sea to show strength.
Am I a Chinese fan, no way, they are demonstrably an autocratic dictatorship, would they still be if the west/US had engaged rather than isolated them, who knows? Why would we do that, well the US had the highest amount of home grown terror attacks after the fall of the Berlin wall, if you don’t have an enemy to scare your populace when they have limited democracy and falling wages they look to change that, foreign wars and bogymen circumvent that to some extent.