It's Wednesday, March 22, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a

Christian worldview.

As you look at the relations between nations, we need to understand that there's always

a basic battle for some kind of alignment and some kind of supremacy.

This is just as old as at least the modern age, but of course there are much older patterns

in history here.

The difference is that now we have pretty much a good picture of the globe, and we are

now looking at the 20th century reality after all.

That's the century of two world wars in which the alignment of nations all over the world,

everywhere in the world, ultimately matters.

Realignments then should have our attention.

When you're looking at a major realignment of the global situation, you're looking at

a reset, so to speak, not only as you're thinking about the present, but as it points to

the future.

Why the big action we need to watch this week is between the leaders of Russia and the

leaders of China meeting in Moscow, because the one thing that they actually have in common

is not just something of a border.

The one thing more importantly they have in common is a basic opposition to the United

States and the West, an increasingly solidified opposition, an increasingly isolated opposition

when it comes to Russia and an increasingly needy opposition when it comes to Russia's

current need for China.

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