I highly recommend reading the following article by Matt Ehret which I am reposting from their Strategic Culture Foundation website.
As for the "war," that is only a setup (China, Russia, and the US are on the same "side," serving the same masters), taking sides in the theater is a self-defeating strategy:
As for the "war," that is only a setup (China, Russia, and the US are on the same "side," serving the same masters), taking sides in the theater is a self-defeating strategy: