Please do not go into this. Too much of a shit filled rabbit hole. You'll spend years looking at low quality videos finding more and more inconsistencies that aren't there.
Hopeful Future Prediction
Nato brings Russia in as a member.
Full trade partnership with Russia.
This secures the entire arctic region for the "West".
China shouldn't be in the Arctic. Arctic Council consists of:
Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States
This move would immediately end the whole "It was the Russians" and bring more stability into the world.
China will otherwise split the individual greedy pieces into even smaller ones that get consumed by infighting and eventually all will be bought off for a dime.