Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine, reckons a Chinese expert on Russia Similarly to USA during WWW II, China is now motivated to support weaker part of conflict just for profit, until war is going. But defeat of Russia would also open Siberia for China, which isn't in USA interests. The memo is simple: agressor will newer win the big war: no matter whether Hitler, Napoleon or Putin. And aggessor is this one who crosses boundary first. Not to say against three times smaller nation. This isn't even fight but a plain bullying. And bulliers are in deep psychological dissadvantage: they can never feel fully right about their intentions.

• Donald Trump says Ukraine's survival is important to US What Ronald Reagan - the icon of MAGA movement - would do in his place? He didn't hesitate to spend trillion USD in dettering of Russia.
• In Taking Crimea, Putin Gains a Sea of Fuel Reserves And not just Crimea. The Russian invasion is merely a classical war for fossil fuel reserves poorly masked as a war againsts "Ukraininan nazism", i.e. independence movement.