No, that's actually not how it works. Russia and China are close strategic partners and both understand that they need the other for their long term security. Russia isn't Turkey or India trying to eat at every table.
Even if the Trump people made overtures to Russia, a Dem or Repub-classic administration could come into office in four years and undo everything; America is structurally untrustworthy. Russia would pocket whatever concessions America gave and then go on its merry way doing exactly as it was doing before.
I merely reported the new conclusion rising in the West among those trying to understand Trump's much better-than-expected victory.
It is quite obvious to us, but only now they have begun to understand that it was a mistake to provoke Russia over Ukraine and strategically unite Putin and Xi Jinping. Previously only a niche group linked to Tucker Carlson talked about it, but now the issue has become more widespread.
They firmly believe that the Democrats' humiliating defeat is enough of an excuse to restart relations and forget what Clinton, Biden and Obama did against Russia with the expansion of NATO. They remain arrogant, but this would be already a turning point.
Of course, Russia will not believe in this “regret” or abandon China, but the russians will certainly fuel the US’s incipient effort to restore relations and take advantage of them. China, knowing that the US is beginning to understand the reality of a multipolar world, will also not stop paying attention to Russia beyond what it has already paid since sanctions and Western sponsorship over the Ukraine debacle.
This new dynamic will be much better for the Russian economy.
It's the US that thinks Russia is a swing state now, and much more important than India and Türkiye.
Before they thought they could easily defeat Russia and then set their sights on defeating China, basically the thinking of the Clinton administration 30 years ago. Today the Democrats lost badly in the face of a new world.
Biden promised to reduce Russia's economy to ashes, but it was his party that was burned much earlier, after all the wars they fueled and were unable to control.
