Moscow has reportedly been shoring up its political partnership with China, with Vladimir Putin pressing the ally nation for military support as well.
Mark Hertling is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who previously served as the commanding general of the Army's Europe branch. Since his retirement a decade ago, Hertling has become prolific as an analyst, appearing on various news programs to discuss military matters, becoming particularly outspoken in the last year amid Russia's invasion of its Eastern European neighbor.
"The truth of the matter is [that] Russia is attempting to gain partners with different countries, who have different types of ammunition that they can help supply this war," Hertling said."And I think Mr. Putin is realizing that he's quickly running out of the kinds of munitions he needs to continue this fight."
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen observing a weapon at a manufacturing plant. A retired U.S. Army general on Friday said that Russia is"quickly running out" of the weapons it needs to fight in Ukraine.with Russia. Despite this, Hertling said that it was unlikely that this relationship would progress to the point of China providing military aid to Russia, due in part to the latter's increasingly poor image on the world stage.
"Certainly, Mr. Putin is attempting to shore up his partnership with President Xi. But I think President Xi a long time ago realized this mission is making Russia and Mr. Putin a pariah on the world stage," Hertling said."They have promised cooperation, political cooperation in the official statement. But as you saw, Mr. Putin was pressing it a little bit, saying, hey, we want military cooperation.
He continued:"I'm sure there was an attempt to trade energy sources for some type of either ammunition or military equipment back from China. I'm not sure Mr. Putin is going to get that from the alpha male in this particular relationship. Mr. Putin is seen as the lesser of the two partners in this new China/Russia relationship."
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