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Easy, destroy Russia as it is the easier target and offer two thirds of it to usa and China if they don't intervene/give us a bit of support. They get free territory with vast resources and we get rid of a menace to western democracies who is already at war with us and get the western part of Russia, expanding Europe, and facilitating business with China. Russia is not really interesting to support as they are relatively small economically (10% of Europe), and there are only 150 millions of people there, they will probably be better in Europe.
On a serious note, I think taking out Russia as a threat is exactly what Europe should do now that it's weak, in order to secure the Eastern flank in case the US goes completely funny.
Only problem is, China can then maybe completely engulf Mongolia, which would give ppl there a really hard time.
china's aiming for cultural/economic victory, not military
Maybe, but it's a problem either way. Mongolia now has a border with just two countries: China and russia. Their merchants can use whichever has lower tariffs or better security etc. So there's a small bit of leverage, which gives a bit of freedom. Now, if China gets the part of russia that connects Mongolia with russia as part of a peace deal that splits russia among the allied forces like Germany after WW2, Mongolia will share a border with only China and they can put tariffs etc as high as they want. If China closed their airspace they couldn't even export/import by air. It would be very worrisome and an immense pressure.