It Follows

Why wouldn’t china render support to Russia in its conflict with Ukraine? The US sees the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a proxy war, rallying support for Ukraine as a means to weaken our enemy, Russia, without putting boots on the ground. China certainly has done the calculus determining that this supply-side support is weakening the US, as it has already been made public the fact that we have depleted our javelin missile supplies sufficiently that it will take seven years to replace our stockpile. Somewhere within the CCP, I would imagine they have laid out a scenario where the US will not be able to come to the aid of Taiwan should China decide to invade. Low inventory coupled with a long supply line will prove our undoing. Be it balloons, North Korean missile tests,  Iranian nuclear programs, passage through the South China Sea, or support for our allies, we are being weighed, we are being measured, and, thus far, we have been found wanting. And our enemies are no doubt further emboldened by the indecisive, faltering Biden lead US administration.