Is China the key actor to bring Russia to negotiate a truce?

By T Snitz Esquire, Chief Economist and Military Analyst, The Spritzler Report

Just repeating what I hypothesized a few months ago.

Russia has used this exercise as a way to gain valuable oil/natural gas assets in the Donbas region and escalate the price of energy.

While their military hasn't moved as quickly as hoped, they've been successful in ramping up energy prices and will likely pick up targets in SE Ukraine.

Of course, this strategy is dependent on China buying their oil. Without oil sales, Putin's petro-state is starved for Oxygen. Xi Jinping can end this conflict anytime he wants by suggesting to Putin that "it's time".