U.S sanctions on Russia benefiting China the most.
A bit ironic considering they want Russia to help them against China...
But then look at the way they are treating France...
US has imposed filmsy sanctions on Russia which are totally unfair and do not stand as per international law but why has US not imposed sanctions on china ?
I suspect they wanted Russia to collapse and fall in to line before they did the same thing to China with Russian help...
Most of the sanctions are about sour grapes over not winning the contract themselves... ie gas deliveries to the EU, sales of SAMs to Turkey etc etc... trying to get India to stop buying Russian stuff and buy US stuff instead...
They can get cheap brownie points with stopping the sale of MiG-35s to Argentina with the UK, which they can use for something else...
Although time is not far when china will openly snatch orders from Russia by reverse engineering many Russian war machines including S 400
Every country would rather make their own military equipment, but making the best is still an issue for most countries at the highest level.
China probably could develop rather capable S-400 copies though the models they bought wont be as good as the systems the Indians will get or that Russia itself uses, but the real critical thing as shown in Yemen... having the best stuff means little without management and planning and support that makes them effective... it is not the fighters that make HATO powerful, it is the AWACS and other systems that tell HATO pilots exactly where all the enemy aircraft are and how to approach them from behind and where to launch an attack from which has both a good chance of a kill and also a very slim chance that you will even be noticed... and of course cruise missiles taking out enemy radar so they can't do the same to you etc etc.
Having SAMs is one thing... Saudi Arabia had lots of SAMs and air defence systems, but they had gaps in their IADS that their enemy exploited with drones and cruise missiles slipping through and destroying targets without even been seen let alone fired upon.
Because their public posturing notwithstanding they are allies. Their vision for the new world order is the same. They want countries to become G-2.
A typical G-2 state has China as its largest trading partner and America as its main Security ally.
No... they don't see China as an equal, they see it as a rival that they need to crush.
Their problem is that the powerful multinational companies that invested in production in China that made them rich and created their growth have to shift production to other countries... china makes western stuff... trying to break China without a replacement ready to go would hurt the west more than it hurt China... China has the rest of the world to sell its crap to and there are plenty of markets they are expanding in to... markets that appreciate that they don't demand law changes to allow them to crush local businesses and buy everything of value.
The longer term plan will be to create an arms race to get China to waste a lot of money and resources on things it does not really need and if they can get India to spend billions on US military kit instead of Russian stuff then there is incentive to help build up India in the hopes that it becomes a counter to China in the same way they befriended China in the hopes of limiting the growth and influence of the Soviet Union.
Of course China used the US too... and so now India is trying to use US China relations to get investment and development and growth, but ironically they are putting their eggs in the basket of the west and the west does not want powerful rivals and will end up trying to stifle Indian growth if you do too well like they are currently with Russia and China. India getting into bed with Russia and China on the other hand will see them being opposed by the west because taht is what the west chooses to do... prevent rivals developing. China and Russia don't care if India becomes wealthy and well developed... they would probably welcome it as long as it came with stability and open trade and good relations.
The US just wants to smash things and feed off the chaos and wreckage...
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