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<https://mwi.westpoint.edu/russias-potemkin-army/>

First Vlad begs covid test kits from Trump (gee, makes
you wonder how good the russian vaccine was if they
can't even TEST for the disease!)

Then, goes, hat in hand, to China for help.  "Here,
Vlad, come sit on my lap...".  Then, to NKorea.

It must be humiliating to have turned his country
into a second (third?) world power in such a short time!

One wonders when China will start eyeing their neighbor
to the north with the idea of acquiring some additional
*chinese* real estate (using Russia's argument re: Ukraine
as justification)?