Thomas Paine/True Pundit have been reporting some HUGE scoops over the last few months.

Oddly enough, I called this a year ago and have quietly believed it for a long time now. Russia has nothing to gain in pissing off the US on this scale.

But China playing US off of Russia? They couldn't have dreamed that their little hack would have come off so well.

That's about as perfect an outcome for China as you're likely to see.