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If China/Russia are shrewd allies, perhaps Xi JingPing is doing all the saber-rattling in order to put pressure on the US/West to want to shift their focus more to Asia and to increase their desire to hammer out a deal as far as Ukraine.  

If China/Russia are shrewd allies, perhaps Xi JingPing is doing all the saber-rattling in order to put pressure on the US/West to want to shift their focus more to Asia and to increase their desire to hammer out a deal as far as Ukraine.  

A lot of political decisions are caused by economics and right now the West, Russia and China have some dark economic storm clouds on the horizon. Edward Luttwak thinks that Russia's economic advisors warned Putin that escalating the war in Ukraine a lot could cause inflation in Russia would be disastrous since Russia has a lot of rural people with fewer economic opportunities so inflation hurts them more. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:04, July 24, 2023 (EDT)

A lot of political decisions are caused by economics and right now the West, Russia and China have some dark economic storm clouds on the horizon. Edward Luttwak thinks that Russia's economic advisors warned Putin that escalating the war in Ukraine a lot could cause inflation in Russia which would be very harmful since Russia has a lot of rural people with fewer economic opportunities. As a result, inflation hurts rural Russians more than it does urban Russians. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:07, July 24, 2023 (EDT)