“For more than a decade, China has been concealing a serious economic slowdown that existentially threatens the ruling regime”, they say.

Source: https://chinaworker.info/en/2023/01/30/34097/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-road-map-for-the-us-china-cold-war

So it takes a unified Russia under Putin and the Orthodox Church to fight something so “existentially serious”.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/12/no_author/moscow-on-the-rocks/