ur barking up the wrong tree post Putin's aborted invasion of Ukraine, due to lack of $$$ that was caused by dwindling oil prices, Russia ran into a severe cash flow problem, to such an extent that it had to enter into several partnerships w China. Effectively, they're short-term loans from China to bail out Russia's cash flow problem
Putin won't bite. He can't and even if he did, it's a 4-8 year partnership that isn't guaranteed in the next term. China OTOH, will never ostracize him unless he directly ****s with China's interests.
McCain knocks Trump's "terribly misinformed" view of Putin Republican Senator John McCain slammed President Trump’s assertion about the moral equivalency of the United States and Vladimir Putin’s Russia in a speech on Tuesday calling that view “terribly misinformed” or “incredibly biased.” “Vladimir knew there was no moral equivalence between the United States and Putin’s Russia,” the Arizona Senator said referring to Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza who was recently hospitalized and may have been poisoned by the Russian government. “There is no moral equivalence between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel and the United States of America,” the eighty-year-old Senator repeated with his voice rising and as he slammed his fist against the lectern, “the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.” http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mccain-knocks-trumps-terribly-misinformed-view-of-putin/
Perhaps worthy of a thread of its own...or combined with thread about WH leaks Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty - sources http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-putin-idUSKBN15O2A5?il=0
