While the world is discussing the crazy Trump’s preparations for an attack on Iran (a war-mongering, peace-seeking figure), and Turkey is talking about Erdogan’s taking over main opposition party CHP (unlawfull absolute nullity of the latest party congress), our northern neighbor is preparing for something.

Russia-China relations are deeper than we think.

Russia has consulted with China before all its major moves in the last 20 years.

The first of these was the 2008 Georgia war, a turning point in history.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who warned the West at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, was prime minister during the operation against Georgia, which was instigated by the West.

He had served two terms as president between 2000-2008, so he took a break and handed over the presidency to his trusted man, Dmitry Medvedev.

Xi Jinping was the Vice President of China in 2008.

Medvedev was in China in May 2008, before the Georgia military operation in August.

He had met with then-Chinese President Hu Jintao, as well as Xi Jinping.

Three months after this meeting, on August 8, 2008, the Russians launched their operation and swept away the Saakashvili regime, which harbored NATO ambitions. It’s worth remembering that the number 8 is considered the luckiest number in China, believed to bring wealth, prosperity, and good fortune.

Then, in 2014, when the annexation of Crimea by the US was on the agenda following the Maidan coup, Xi, now president, was in Russia to attend the opening of the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Just 15 days after Xi’s meeting with Putin on February 7, 2014, Russian troops entered Crimea, launching the annexation operation.

Following the Maidan coup in Ukraine, when massacres escalated in the Donbass region, predominantly inhabited by Russians, Putin targeted Kyiv.

On February 4, 2022, Putin, attending the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, held a historic face-to-face meeting with Xi.

Twenty days later, the Russians launched a special military operation in Ukraine.

On October 7, 2023, following a surprise and suspicious Hamas attack, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu planned to use this as an opportunity to draw the US into a war against Iran.

Eleven days later, on October 18, Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Belt and Road Summit in Beijing.

Following this meeting, developments in Syria led to the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad on December 8, 2024.

Isn’t the pattern significant?

Russian and Chinese leaders meet and consult before making all critical decisions regarding the West.

Because everyone now accepts that world affairs cannot be discussed without China.

Coming to today…

Russia’s painful four-year campaign in Ukraine continues with the Kiev administration (with the support of Europe, primarily the UK) escalating its attacks.

Putin, who relied on Trump, has seen his expectations dashed. It seems the US, as in the two world wars, intends to prevent Russia’s collapse by pitting Europe against Russia in a war.

European leaders are acting in accordance with this scenario, preparing their countries for war with Russia at the cost of their own interests.

Leaving aside the question of why Zelensky hasn’t been decapitated, the Black Sea, the Kremlin, and many Russian cities are under heavy attack, and even in Mali, where Russia has influence, Ukrainian Nazis appear active, and Putin is being accused for the first time of being “passive and weak” in his own country.

The deaths of 21 students in the recent Ukrainian attack in Luhansk were the last straw. But in my opinion, Putin was planning something beforehand.

Because he went to China again.

This was supposedly a pre-planned visit, but then again, no visit happens without a plan!

Putin’s visit on May 19-20, 2026, was his 25th trip to China.

But the significance of this visit lay in the fact that it came immediately after Trump, and of course, in the fact that Russia was preparing for a new phase in Ukraine and perhaps in Europe.

Indeed, on May 16, the Russian Chief of General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, announced that a large-scale offensive against the NATO-Ukrainian army was imminent.

A massive nuclear exercise also began simultaneously with Putin’s visit to China.

The military exercise, which involved the planned launch of ballistic and cruise missiles from training grounds across the country, included over 64,000 soldiers, as well as approximately 200 missile launch systems, 140 aircraft, 73 ships, and 13 submarines, totaling over 7,800 military vehicles.

Following the school attack that occurred after the exercise, which ended on May 21, Russia, for the first time, unleashed everything it had on Kyiv.

Oreshniks, Zirkons, Iskanders, or Kinjals?

The results of this attack have not yet been announced.

Some claim that Zelensky was the target, while others say the cocaine-addicted dictator has already fled the country.

Reliable but unofficial sources claim that Ukrainian Chief of General Staff Syrsky is dead.

Some in Kyiv even claim that the Russians may soon use tactical nuclear weapons.

Whatever anyone says, Russia is entering a new phase in its long and painful war with NATO in Ukraine, and this phase will seriously affect not only Europe and the Black Sea, but the entire world.

If we add to this Trump’s planned major attack against Iran, we can speak of a world war that finance capital so desperately desires.

This is the imminent and present danger.

In this situation, with no trace of democracy and our country and nation mired in singular domestic politics, I can only say “May God protect us.”

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Hüseyin Vodinalı completed master’s degree (MA) in journalism and TV production at the New York Institute of Technology in the USA between 1992-94. During the same period, worked as the New York and United Nations correspondent of Anadolu Agency and TRT. He worked as a diplomacy and defense correspondent on Turkish national TV channels since 1995. Served as the  Chief of Foreign News at TRT, the Turkish State/Public Television. Retired from TRT in 2020. He still regularly publishes geopolitical articles on Veryansıntv.com and Dağarcık Turkiye, news and commentary sites. Author of three boks in Turkish: “Covid 19 – Beyond a Virus”, “NATO as a Mandate Organization” and “Epstein Scandal – Mossad’s Global Blackmail”.

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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