challenges at home with the economy, and also the challenges on the battlefield. now he may be running out of supplies himself. if not, why would there be this ask for china's help to replenish them as well and to bring china into this in a way i suspect they are really not keen to do. keep in mind that china really wanted peace and calm until the relax of president xi in the fall when the party gathers, having gotten through the olympics in good form. ukraine's biggest trading partner was china, a lot of belt and road initiative plans for ukraine, and of course russia is quickly becoming the evil empire, you know. 140 plus countries in the u.n. general assembly vote against it, albeit china, india and some others abstaining. but i don't think china wants to decisively come in as the supplier for russia, noting only a few areas to overlap china