The Daily Populous Monday February 17th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by zamin.uz and submitted by aWhiteWildLion

The United States is trying to "break up" Russia's alliances with Iran, China, and North Korea. This was announced by Keith Kellogg, the US President's special representative for Ukraine, during a conference in Munich, CNN reports.According to Kellogg, such alliances did not exist a few years ago. "The United States will work to break up Russia's alliances," he says.By breaking up such alliances, the United States hopes to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to take "unfavorable" actions for itself.Iran and Russia signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement in mid-January. According to it, "if one of the parties is attacked, the other party will provide military assistance."Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping also agreed on the active development of bilateral cooperation. The Chinese leader called the relations between the two countries a "standard." Putin, in turn, emphasized that relations with China are one of the main stabilizing factors in the world.On December 4, the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between Russia and the DPRK entered into force. The parties signed it in June, and the agreement is concluded for an indefinite period. The document provides for cooperation in defense, economics, science and energy, as well as mutual military assistance.

Dietmeister on February 17th, 2025 at 09:46 UTC »

He's giving Ukraine parts to Russia and in exchange he wants Russia to decouple from China? All the while Russia can't get its market back in Europe.

How does he imagine this will work? Will the US start to import all the Russian gas and oil then? How is Russia supposed to recover without ties to China?

What is his actual plan for what happens after the first year of armistice in which Russia feels its been given a gift. The Russians don't exactly act like the type of people that will begin giving gifts back out of thankfulness.

justwalk1234 on February 17th, 2025 at 09:39 UTC »

I guess by pressuring the EU to work with China instead of the US, China is "forced" to choose between EU and Russia, and hence a wedge is driven between Russia and China? Is that Trumps super chess move?

DisasterNo1740 on February 17th, 2025 at 08:46 UTC »

Well I’m only a layman but trying to break apart the alliance of nations directly challenging your world hegemony by not only emboldening their efforts to destroy your world order but also by abandoning your richer and closer and far more reliable allies doesn’t sound like the way to do it.