Susan Kokinda

You know, I...

I don't really believe that either Russia or China is all that enamored of this regime.

I mean, again, and when I'm talking about any nation, I'm not also presuming that they're completely unified.

I think there's a lot more factions in China than there probably are in Russia at this point, at least in terms of their actual influence.

So are there factions in China that would like to bail out the IRGC?

Probably.

Is Xi Jinping going to let them?

I don't know the answer to that, but if I had to guess, I'd say probably not.

So I don't think they have too many places to go at this point.

Because again, what has Donald Trump done with these other countries?

What has he done with Russia?

What has he done with China?

He's created a different kind of relationship with them.

If you read the National Security Strategy, which came out in December, or read the National Defense Strategy, which came out in January, these are very, very interesting documents because they're written for the layman.

You know, they're not written in bureaucrates and they're relatively short and they just establish a completely different parameter in the world where you do not see either Russia, especially you don't see Russia treated as some kind of immutable enemy.

And you see China treated as a competitor who could cause problems in Asia, but we're going to be powerful enough that it won't.

So and and, believe me, the Chinese and the Russians have read those documents you compare the US national security strategy document to the new British Defense document, you know their hair is on fire in terms of Russia.

perpetual enemy, World War III around the corner, and so on and so forth.

China, they have a more complicated approach to, which is how can we somehow still maneuver China in our world and use it against the United States?

But the Russians and Chinese can read these documents.