מומחה לענייני ביטחון: המשטר הסיני שואף להאריך את הסכסוכים באוקראינה ובמזרח התיכון כדי להחליש את מעמדה של ארה"ב

And joining us now to discuss these latest developments is National Security Advisor and China Analyst Casey Fleming. He's the CEO of Black Ops Partners. Casey, as always, thank you so much for joining us. Now, all eyes are on how the Russia-Ukraine conflict is going to end. Russia has just indicated it wants a trilateral with India and China. What could this mean in terms of Putin ending or continuing the war in Ukraine? I think what we're looking at and my team thinks that what we're looking at is an extended peace negotiation. We've got two sides. We've got the United States and Ukraine who want an immediate end to the war. And you've got the other side, which is China, Russia, and other allies of China and Russia who want to keep it extended. And they play the long game. So we want to play the short game to a quick ceasefire and a quick peace agreement. But the other negotiators, the adversaries, want to keep it much longer. The CCP is the wild card in this thing. The CCP plays the long game. They want to keep Russia engaged in Ukraine, therefore the US engaged in Ukraine to keep us distracted, along with Middle East and potentially another war that pops up, either Taiwan or North Korea. So the game for the CCP is to keep the United States very distracted so they can continue their extreme aggression throughout the rest of the world. On that note, both China and India have been buying Russian oil, which the US says has been helping to fund the conflict, although India has been buying less since President Trump slashed additional tariffs on Indian exports to the US over its Russian oil and gas imports. But reports note that China is involved with more than just economic support. Some note the no-limits partnership that was struck right before the invasion. What has been China's role here? China's role has been very supportive of Russia. You remember that they created a very strong alliance and agreement, friends until the end, before Russia ever went into Ukraine. So there's a strategic partnership there, at least for now, where they are aligned against the United States and to remove the United States as a global superpower, and for the CCP's eventual rule of the rest of the world. So it's a partnership that we cannot ignore. The CCP is the wild card in this situation. They are the grand puppet master with Russia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea underneath that, and to a little bit of an extent, India as well. So China is the wild card. They want to keep this war going as long as they possibly can. And if there is a temporary ceasefire or a, quote, temporary peace agreement, it will be temporary.