Vladimir Putin bet on oil, gas diamonds, coal, and wheat. Xi may count on manfactured cheap as leverage to take the East, including India. What China learned watching the world and Vlad is that the West does not play fair either. If he lets N. Korea launch, the big guns come out for the Nagasaki Two Step.
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The best a wheat controlling oligarch can threaten is a world on a diet ending with a Senate scene featuring himself as Julius surrounded by lean and angry looks.