Rather, the hot talk is all the other way 'round, that the US should woo Russia as an ally against China.
Whether or not the US is open to teaming up with Russia against China doesn't address the question of whether such a ploy would be objectively viable.
This makes any notion of enlisting Russia as an ally against China impractical, to say the least.
Russia has more objective incentives to get along with China than with the US. The main thing Russia needs from the US is basically - well, nothing.
What Russia mainly wants from the US is negative: to stop regarding Russia as an enemy and get out of Moscow's face in regions vitally important to Russia but of little or no value to the US. "Without taking the analogy to George Orwell's 1984 too far, geographically America and Russia not only have no reason for conflict, they have little natural need for interdependence. Russia is the closest approximation of the"Heartland" of Halford Mackinder's "World Island.
With a common boarder of over 2,500 miles, Russia and China are locked into a relationship by the simple fact of geography in a way neither is with the United States, which inherently is in the most secure position of the three.
Fueled in part by an entrenched American animus against Russia and a growing one towards China, Moscow and Beijing have chosen full-spectrum partnership via the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Belt and Road Initiative, Eurasia Economic Union, the New Development Bank, and other initiatives.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-04/there-will-be-no-american-russian-alliance-against-china
Whether or not the US is open to teaming up with Russia against China doesn't address the question of whether such a ploy would be objectively viable.
This makes any notion of enlisting Russia as an ally against China impractical, to say the least.
Russia has more objective incentives to get along with China than with the US. The main thing Russia needs from the US is basically - well, nothing.
What Russia mainly wants from the US is negative: to stop regarding Russia as an enemy and get out of Moscow's face in regions vitally important to Russia but of little or no value to the US. "Without taking the analogy to George Orwell's 1984 too far, geographically America and Russia not only have no reason for conflict, they have little natural need for interdependence. Russia is the closest approximation of the"Heartland" of Halford Mackinder's "World Island.
With a common boarder of over 2,500 miles, Russia and China are locked into a relationship by the simple fact of geography in a way neither is with the United States, which inherently is in the most secure position of the three.
Fueled in part by an entrenched American animus against Russia and a growing one towards China, Moscow and Beijing have chosen full-spectrum partnership via the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Belt and Road Initiative, Eurasia Economic Union, the New Development Bank, and other initiatives.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-04/there-will-be-no-american-russian-alliance-against-china
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