China and Russia collapsing or America collapsing?

Every day we hear about China collapsing, as if the twenty years of collapsing is not enough. China has gone through centuries of turmoil, civil wars, foreign occupation and still intact and growing stronger. This must be a big disappointment for Gordon Chang and other charlatans, hoping to see their prophecy come true. China will still be around, far longer than Gordon Chang can ever hope to stay alive. He will collapse first.

Oh, Russia was also supposed to collapse at the start of the Ukraine War in 2022, but three years into the war, Russia is still able to fire scores of missiles and hundreds of drones into Ukraine, every other day. Does that indicate that Russia has collapsed? And what about the gloating that Russia has no friends and isolated. Just look at the countries taking part in the Victory Day military parade in Russia months ago. Isolated my foot! The USA and the Europeans are fooling themselves that sanctions are doing its job.

Russia has been cut off from SWIFT, yet its economy is still functioning, doing even better than the sanctioning countries, having migrated its settlement system in trade with friendly states like China, away from SWIFT and away from using the US$. That shows to the world that there are alternatives to SWIFT and countries are learning. BRICS especially is showing the way. The usage of US$ by countries and keeping it as a reserve currency is declining faster than usual. Sure, it will be slow, but steady, rather than fast and destructive for the rest of the Global South countries. China does what it always do, looking at the longer-term benefits. Russia is also not to be underestimated by its slow demolition method of dealing with adversaries. Hitler and Napolean are examples of the Russian (or Soviet Union) grinding machine, destroying its enemies' using attrition.


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