As for Korea...certainly the Un Alliance were not prepared for China to intervene as it did when N. Korea was loosing bigtime....and UN forces were caught off guard.....though later they would gain ground again....but initially they got slammed by China.
Putin plays whatever hand works for him......no matter which sides he stands with...his Alliances are not set in stone....any more than Obama’s. As we’ve all been following...treaties are being broken all over the place today....
I want you to check this out. We slaughters Chinese and had troops near Laos when that quivering Truman ORDERED US TO STOP!! MacArthur was fired because he was crushing the Chinese bastards. I suspect you don’t have a clue about Korea. We killed 300,000 of those bastards but in the end— it was the Democrat that collapsed.( just like today)
My late husband was an infantry officer in Korea, AND from Iowa. He suffered terribly from PTSD and when our son was becoming a teenager his guilt was very high. Although he was a blue-eyed redhead, by husband was part Cree Indian, and I had some Asian tartar from my Prussian ancestors. Our son had a slightly Asian look with very dark hair and dark eyes. One night when he was feeling especially bad, he (my husband) broke down and cried over and over again, I killed somebody’s son. He had bayoneted a young (teen) Chinese soldier. He vividly remembered the near defeat and terrible struggle to regain ground in “those ugly brown hills” of Korea.
As for Putin he says he is currently supporting Iraq. He may not want a too strong Iran on his southern border, so he might indeed find some way to be supportive of Israel. Any further word on his health or gas pipeline plans?