Det här var nytt för mig, men jag har befunnit mig i radioskugga i några dagar:
MOSCOW, March 26 (Reuters) - Russia and China are not creating a military alliance and the cooperation between their armed forces is "transparent", President Vladimir Putin said in comments broadcast on Sunday, days after hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the Kremlin.
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"We are not creating any military alliance with China," Putin said on state television. "Yes, we have cooperation in the sphere of military-technical interaction. We are not hiding this.
"Everything is transparent, there is nothing secret."
Reuters: Russia, China are not creating military alliance, Putin says (2023-03-26)
Vad tjänar Putin på att vara så transparent kring detta? Är det renhårighet?
Fast vänta — det kommer mer:
Putin also accused the United States and NATO of seeking to build a new global "axis" that he said bore some resemblance to the World War Two alliance between Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and imperial Japan.
Putin named Australia, New Zealand and South Korea as being in line to join a "global NATO" and referenced a defence agreement signed by Britain and Japan earlier this year.
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"That is why Western analysts... are talking about the West starting to build a new axis similar to the one created in the 1930s by the fascist regimes of Germany and Italy and militarist Japan," he said.
Tror Putin försöker kratta manegen för ett framtida utökat "samarbete" med Kina, under det att en uppgörelse i Asien mellan kineserna + Kinas allierade och fiender som Japan, Sydkorea och Australien rycker allt närmare. Ukraina-grejen och konflikten kring Taiwan sammanflätade.
