We may not be going into WW3 with Russia over Syria after all.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I don't think China's really going to be helpful in curbing NOKO. Sooner or later we're going to have to deal with them in some way that will put us on a collision course with China.

Of course they won't help in curbing NoKor. NoKor, to the Chinese, is a lemon, to be squeezed of all its juice and then dropped when it is no longer useful.

But they will drop NoKor before dropping us, if for no other reason than economics. They cannot afford to lose 20% of they exports -- and that's not counting Europe, which would certainly have something to say in any collision.