Epigraph: Therefore, I hope that the hole card of Russia is really a dead card: in the eyes of Christian fundamentalists, remembering our identity ——— heresy! can be conquered and even killed.
Get close to the United States! In February and March, Putin played this huge hole card! With the passage of the US aid bill to Ukraine, this card seems to be abolished!
Putin participates in the Orthodox Easter Mass
Don't laugh at it, the United States and Russia have great similarities in religion, values, and geopolitical interests, and it is possible for them to be close, especially compared to us.
But in any case, with the passage of the U.S. aid to Ukraine bill, this card seems to be scrapped!
1. There must be a foundation in order to weigh the hole cards.
Foundation 1: Ideology
Russia and the United States are religiously homologous: both belong to Christianity, Russia belongs to the Christian Orthodox Church, and the United States belongs to Protestant Christianity.
So, ideologically, Russia shares a common language with the far-right conservative forces in the United States, which have traditional religion as their values.
Representative of the far right in the United States, Trump
Until the end, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Johnson, wanted to submit the Ukraine aid bill to a vote, and the far-right members of the House of Representatives also threatened to start the recall process for Johnson, which is enough to show the unity of values and give the United States and Russia a foundation.
2. Common Benefit
Kissinger said: Russia has an important position in the world's geopolitical pattern, and peace in Europe comes from balance.
It is a huge benefit for the United States to suppress the rise of Europe by Russia, and then to rely on the United States for security, and in the process of such suppression, Russia also shares in the hegemonic interests of the United States, although it has become a vassal of the American hegemony – but it also has huge benefits.
The above is the basis between Russia and the United States.
Second, can be played quietly, is the hole card
1. Putin quietly played his cards
Since February 7, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been interviewed by American far-right journalist Tucker Carlson and revealed that he has returned to the Western civilization world family, on February 14, he further stated that Russia is willing to cooperate with the United States, and on March 6, he further faintly pointed out that the biggest problem of the United States is that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it cannot bear the burden of managing the world - hinting that it can become a helper of the United States!
Even though Putin openly said that the West should not be afraid of Russia, but should be afraid of China -- this is in line with Trump's words, and in Trump's eyes, and even in the eyes of the Americans at present, China is the number one opponent -- the enemy.
The cards that can be played quietly in this way, and the "Ula" sound of Russian fans can also be obtained, is the hole card.
On the same day, Putin said that Russia had abandoned the leadership of the GCD and returned to Orthodox Christianity
2. The card is wasted, it is still a hole card
The timeline is very consistent: Compared with Putin's speech on February 7: On February 10, Trump said that he would encourage Russia to do whatever it wants when allies do not fulfill their financial agreements; compared to Putin's speech on February 14; on February 17, Johnson postponed voting on the Ukraine aid bill on a two-week vacation......
However, on April 19, Trump stated that Ukraine's survival is important to the United States. On April 21, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the aid bill for Ukraine: it shows that the card played by Putin is invalid.
But the discarded cards are still hole cards.
3. Is the card really wasted?
On April 11, Professor Feng Yujun, director of the Center for Russian Studies at Fudan University, expressed his view that Russia will lose in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
It puts forward four reasons, and finally puts forward one point, Russia will often bite hard in the east in the end, and regain its strength - Professor Feng Yujun's words can be seen in history, in 1856, Tsarist Russia lost the Crimean War, and as a result, in 1858-1864, it bit us three times eastward: a total of 1.5 million square kilometers, and before the end of World War II, Soviet Russia took a big bite in our north: another 1.5 million square kilometers of Outer Mongolia was divided.
Therefore, I hope that Russia's hole card has really become a waste card! Under the US-led Russia-Ukraine war, anything can happen!