this is kind of what china is about but it is being exposed. that s what i don t understand. you want to do that anti-democracy schtick, you can do that. but when you fight wars and you show how corrupt having a tyrant at the top rots the entire country every day. it is not like we haven t said this sing the beginning of the war. every dea he exposes himself and now you have latvia going, you know what? we re not too scared of the russian army after all. they look worse every day. the question is why doesn t xi say, let s cut our losses here, let s just look at the map, pick a win we will have a may 9th. i will come down, we will hang out in moscow. not so easy. it takes one to start a war, vladimir putin. it takes two to stop a war.