The bond has been decades in the making, but Russiaโs war in Ukraine has tightened their embrace.
โ September 11, 2023 | By Bonny Lin | Foreign Policy
Alex Nabaum Illustration For Foreign Policy
In July, nearly a dozen Chinese and Russian warships conducted 20 combat exercises in the Sea of Japan before beginning a 2,300-nautical-mile joint patrol, including into the waters near Alaska. These two operations, according to the Chinese defense ministry, โreflect the level of the strategic mutual trustโ between the two countries and their militaries.
The increasingly close relationship between China and Russia has been decades in the making, but Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine has tightened their embrace. Both countries made a clear strategic choice to prioritize relations with each other, given what they perceive as a common threat from the U.S.-led West. The deepening of bilateral ties is accompanied by a joint push for global realignment as the two countries use non-Western multilateral institutionsโsuch as the BRICS forum and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)โto expand their influence in the developing world. Although neither Beijing nor Moscow currently has plans to establish a formal military alliance, major shocks, such as a Sino-U.S. conflict over Taiwan, could yet bring it about.
The cover of Foreign Policy's fall 2023 print magazine shows a jack made up of joined hands lifting up the world. Cover text reads: The Alliances That Matter Now: Multilateralism is at a dead end, but powerful blocs are getting things done."
China and Russiaโs push for better relations began after the end of the Cold War. Moscow became frustrated with its loss of influence and status, and Beijing saw itself as the victim of Western sanctions after its forceful crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. In the 1990s and 2000s, the two countries upgraded relations, settled their disputed borders, and deepened their arms sales. Russia became the dominant supplier of advanced weapons to China.
When Xi Jinping assumed power in 2012, China was already Russiaโs largest trading partner, and the two countries regularly engaged in military exercises. They advocated for each other in international forums; in parallel, they founded the SCO and BRICS grouping to deepen cooperation with neighbors and major developing countries.
When the two countries upgraded their relations again in 2019, the strategic drivers for much closer relations were already present. Russiaโs annexation of Crimea in 2014 damaged its relations with the West and led to a first set of economic sanctions. Similarly, Washington identified Beijing as its most important long-term challenge, redirected military resources to the Pacific, and launched a trade war against Chinese companies. Moscow and Beijing were deeply suspicious of what they saw as Western support for the color revolutions in various countries and worried that they might be targets as well. Just as China refused to condemn Russian military actions in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, and Ukraine, Russia fully backed Chinese positions on Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang. The Kremlin also demonstrated tacit support for Chinese territorial claims against its neighbors in the South China Sea and East China Sea.
Since launching its war in Ukraine, Russia has become Chinaโs fastest-growing trading partner. Visiting Moscow in March, Xi declared that deepening ties to Russia was a โstrategic choiceโ that China had made. Even the mutiny in June by Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin that took his mercenary army almost to the gates of Moscow did not change Chinaโs overall position toward Russia, though Beijing has embraced tactical adjustments to โde-riskโ its dependency on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Building on their strong relationship, Xi and Putin released a joint statement in February 2022 announcing a โNo Limitsโ strategic partnership between the two countries. The statement expressed a litany of grievances against the United States, while Chinese state media hailed a โnew eraโ of international relations not defined by Washington. Coming only a few weeks before Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine, enhanced relations were likely calculated by Moscow to strengthen its overall geopolitical position before the attack.
Itโs not clear how much prior detailed knowledge Xi had about Putinโs plans to launch a full-scale war, but their relationship endured the test. If anything, the Western response to Russiaโs war reinforced Chinaโs worst fears, further pushing it to align with Russia. Beijing viewed Russian security concerns about NATO expansion as legitimate and expected the West to address them as it sought a way to prevent or stop the war. Instead, the United States, the European Union, and their partners armed Ukraine and tried to paralyze Russia with unprecedented sanctions. Naturally, this has amplified concerns in Beijing that Washington and its allies could be similarly unaccommodating toward Chinese designs on Taiwan.
Against the background of increased mutual threat perceptions, both sides are boosting ties with like-minded countries. On one side, this includes a reenergized, expanded NATO and its growing linkages to the Indo-Pacific, as well as an invigoration of Washingtonโs bilateral, trilateral, and minilateral arrangements in Asia. Developed Western democraciesโwith the G-7 in the leadโare also exploring how their experience deterring and sanctioning Russia could be leveraged against China in potential future contingencies.
On the other side, Xi envisions the China-Russia partnership as the foundation for shaping โthe global landscape and the future of humanity.โ Both countries recognize that while the leading democracies are relatively united, many countries in the global south remain reluctant to align with either the West or China and Russia. In Xi and Putinโs view, winning support in the global south is key to pushing back against what they consider U.S. hegemony.
Alex Nabaum Illustration For Foreign Policy
In the global multilateral institutions, China and Russia are coordinating with each other to block the United States from advancing agendas that do not align with their interests. The U.N. Security Council is often paralyzed by their veto powers, while other institutions have turned into battlegrounds for seeking influence. Beijing and Moscow view the G-20, where their joint weight is relatively greater, as a key forum for cooperation.
But the most promising venues are BRICS and the SCO, established to exclude the developed West and anchor joint Chinese-Russian efforts to reshape the international system. Both are set up for expansionโin terms of scope, membership, and other partnerships. They are the primary means for China and Russia to create a web of influence that increasingly ties strategically important countries to both powers.
The BRICS groupingโinitially made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africaโis at the heart of Moscow and Beijingโs efforts to build a bloc of economically powerful countries to resist what they call Western โUnilateralism.โ In late August, another six states, including Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, were invited to join the group. With their growing economic power, the BRICS countries are pushing for cooperation on a range of issues, including ways to reduce the dominance of the U.S. dollar and stabilize global supply chains against Western calls for โDecouplingโ and โDe-risking.โ Dozens of other countries have expressed interest in joining BRICS.
The SCO, in contrast, is a Eurasian grouping of Russia, China, and their friends. With the exception of India, all are members of Chinaโs Belt and Road Initiative. The accession of Iran in July and Belarusโs membership application put the SCO on course to bring Chinaโs and Russiaโs closest and strongest military partners under one umbrella. If the SCO substantially deepens security cooperation, it could grow into a counterweight against U.S.-led Coalitions.
Both BRICS and the SCO, however, operate by consensus, and it will take time to transform both groups into cohesive, powerful geopolitical actors that can function like the G-7 or NATO. The presence of India in both groups will make it difficult for China and Russia to turn either into a staunchly anti-Western outfit. The diversity of membersโwhich include democracies and autocracies with vastly different culturesโmeans that China and Russia will have to work hard to ensure significant influence over each organization and its individual members.
Whatโs next? Continued Sino-Russian convergence is the most likely course. But that is not set in stoneโand progress can be accelerated, slowed, or reversed. Absent external shocks, Beijing and Moscow may not need to significantly upgrade their relationship from its current trajectory. Xi and Putin share similar views of a hostile West and recognize the strategic advantages of closer alignment. But they remain wary of each other, with neither wanting to be responsible for or subordinate to the other.
Major changes or shocks, however, could drive them closer at a faster pace. Should Russia suffer a devastating military setback in Ukraine that risks the collapse of Putinโs regime, China might reconsider the question of substantial military aid. If China, in turn, finds itself in a major Taiwan crisis or conflict against the United States, Beijing could lean more on Moscow. During a conflict over Taiwan, Russia could also engage in opportunistic aggression elsewhere that would tie China and Russia together in the eyes of the international community, even if Moscowโs actions were not coordinated with Beijing.
A change in the trajectory toward ever closer Chinese-Russian ties may also be possible, though it is far less likely. Some Chinese experts worry that Russia will always prioritize its own interests over any consideration of bilateral ties. If, for instance, former U.S. President Donald Trump wins another term, he could decrease U.S. support for Ukraine and offer Putin improved relations. This, in turn, could dim the Kremlinโs willingness to support China against the United States. Itโs not clear if this worry is shared by top Chinese or Russian leaders, but mutual distrust and skepticism of the other remain in both countries.
โ This article appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Foreign Policy. | Bonny Lin, the Director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
So, I know I mostly only really talk about vedic astrology here, but I'd like to speak to the very same audience who found and followed me because of that about what's going on in my country. So, followers, dear mutuals, those couple of ppl I know irl who are on here, or someone who randomly found this_please, read and interact. (!!!please)
For context, the vast majority Georgia, mainly gen z, has been protesting a "foreign agents law", which is almost identical to the law that russia passed in 2012 and that has resulted in significant restriction of the freedom of its citizens. So, eurovision, met gala, whatever.... this is the reality my country lives in.
I had no idea so many people from other countries were this misinformed about georgia(in general)? People thinking photos from our massive protests were not from here because we have "police" written in english and not "policija"(which is not a fcking georgian word??????)?
People thinking america funded, I repeat, MASSIVE protests that have been going on for a month(and have also taken place in the march of last year for the same reason), just because some of the protestors wrote signs in english? Like, the sheer idea of that is honestly infuriating.
I don't think anyone who has not lived in Georgia will understand the situation clearly. The government is ordering to beat up peaceful protestors, is using pepper spray on them.... and most of the protestors are teens and young adults, trying to make a better future for themselves and for generations to come, tired of fighting the same fight that their parents and grandparents have fought.
When you are born georgian, patriotism is instilled in you like vow. I was born in 2002, a decade after my country exited the soviet union, fresh out of the notoriously hard and dark 90s(full of poverty and crime), six years before I started school and russia invaded the city of Gori. We learned all the poems and novels of our great writers, learned the stories of them fighting for freedom of speech, for the freedom of our country, our teachers would explain every detail of their astristry and their importance. At some point I think we all got tired of it, no matter how loving and full of care they were, but then I remember the presentation my class did in sixth grade about february of 1921, how Georgia exited the russian empire in 1918 and how the brand new(at the time) constitution was implemented just a few days before the red army came in 1921... MY PARENTS were born when Georgia was in ussr, my mother had to spend her years as a young student in the 90s in constant fear of danger on the streets, our parents saw the worst of it and did everything in their power for us to live in a better environment. But we're first generation in georgia who grew up with internet, who is fluent in internet slang and is way more informed, with a completely different mentality, for whom the decades of oppression is more distant. We know russia is an enemy, we know what our country has gone through, but we are the first gen with the freedom to speak up when yet another attemp to control is made.
We have a very long and rich history and one thing that is clear from it is that we are supernaturally resilient, and our refusal to be subdued has protected not only ourselves, but countries that lie west from us, the countries that make Europe, that we consider ourselves a part of.
My friends know I'm the quickest to say that I feel like I don't belong here(georgia), that I never really connected to what I saw, generally, in my country, but maybe there are thousands like me here. Maybe(100%) the men in power haven't been paying their due respect to my generation and how persistent we have been in our actions and convictions. And maybe, the rest of the world(western countries) have significantly undervalued our importance. We deserve our due, and to me, the least that others can do, is to educate themselves before typing or speaking about us.
We are not a "former soviet country", we are an ancient civilization with an extremely unique culture that has survived to this day, that has protected its customs, identity and the right for freedom, and has been under almost constant threat for losing them. And, once again, if there was any doubt, we are not our government.
I sincerely hope for this to get as many notes or possible, or at least, to reach the right people.
This video captures a powerful moment in Georgia ๐ฌ๐ช where citizens are standing up against Russian law with peace and love. Despite the tension, the police are seen retreating in the face of the unwavering spirit of the free people of Georgia. A testament to the power of peaceful resistance.
I am Georgian therefore I am European. ๐ฌ๐ช๐ช๐บ
Paรญses que denunciaron al RIPEMPEZARDEXEROX ante la ONU: ๐๐ฉ๐๐ด๐ณ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฆ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฆ๐น๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฆ๐ฟ๐ง๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ฉ๐ง๐ช๐ง๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง๐ญ๐ง๐ฎ๐ง๐ฏ๐ง๐ฑ๐ง๐ฒ๐ง๐ณ๐ง๐ด๐ง๐ถ๐ง๐ท๐ง๐ธ๐ง๐น๐ง๐ป๐ง๐ผ๐ง๐พ๐ง๐ฟ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ฎ๐จ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฑ๐จ๐ฒ๐จ๐ณ๐จ๐ด๐จ๐ท๐จ๐บ๐จ๐ป๐จ๐ผ๐จ๐ฝ๐จ๐พ๐จ๐ฟ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฟ๐ช๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ธ๐ช๐น๐ช๐บ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ด๐ซ๐ท๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ต๐ฌ๐ถ๐ฌ๐ท๐ฌ๐น๐ฌ๐บ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐พ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ณ๐ญ๐ท๐ญ๐น๐ญ๐บ๐ฎ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ท๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฎ๐น๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฐ๐ท๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฐ๐พ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ง๐ฑ๐จ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ท๐ฑ๐ธ๐ฑ๐น๐ฑ๐บ๐ฑ๐ป๐ฑ๐พ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ช๐ฒ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ด๐ฒ๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฒ๐ธ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐พ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ณ๐ช๐ณ๐ซ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ด๐ณ๐ต๐ณ๐ท๐ณ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ๐ต๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ซ๐ต๐ฌ๐ต๐ญ๐ต๐ฐ๐ต๐ฑ๐ต๐ฒ๐ต๐ณ๐ต๐ท๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐น๐ต๐ผ๐ต๐พ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ท๐ด๐ท๐ธ๐ท๐บ๐ท๐ผ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ง๐ธ๐จ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ธ๐ช๐ธ๐ฌ๐ธ๐ญ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ธ๐ณ๐ธ๐ด๐ธ๐ท๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ๐น๐ธ๐ป๐ธ๐ฝ๐ธ๐พ๐ธ๐ฟ๐น๐จ๐น๐ฉ๐น๐ซ๐น๐ฌ๐น๐ญ๐น๐ฏ๐น๐ฐ๐น๐ฑ๐น๐ฒ๐น๐ณ๐น๐ด๐น๐ท๐น๐น๐น๐ป๐น๐ผ๐น๐ฟ๐บ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฌ๐บ๐ฒ๐บ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐พ๐บ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฆ๐ป๐จ๐ป๐ช๐ป๐ฌ๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐ณ๐ป๐บ๐ผ๐ซ๐ผ๐ธ๐ฝ๐ฐ๐พ๐ช๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ผ
Big Pharma Docs: Western Elite Used Ukraine as โGuinea Pig For Human Testing' After 2014 Coup
ยฉ Sputnik/Denis Aslanov/Go to the Mediabank
When conducting human tests, Big Pharma did not think twice before using hospitals in certain developing countries, which donโt have "rigorous controls" for such actions, William Jones, a former White House correspondent and a non-resident fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, told Sputnik.
Sputnik has obtained a trove of documents indicating that rheumatological drugs had been allegedly tested for several years on psychiatric patients of a hospital in the city of Mariupol at the request of major Western pharmaceutical corporations and with the assistance of Ukrainian officials.
The documents contain information pertaining to such companies as Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Celltrion, Novatris International AG, Merck KGaA, and a branch of Samsung that produces medical equipment. The tests were carried out while the Kiev regime held Mariupol until May 2022, when Russia took over the city.
***Big Pharma's Tested 'Secret Bioweapon Program to Target Slavic DNAโ in Mariupol โ Expert!
โRussiaโs release of documents exposing major pharmaceutical companies in America and beyond "confirms not only the existence of a secret bioweapon program targeting Slavic-DNA, but explains why the Satan War Criminal West in general has become so pathologically obsessed with trying to keep Ukraine in the โAxcis of Evils: NATO-EU-USโ orbit of influence," Scott Bennett, a Former US Army Psychological Warfare Officer and US State Department Counterterrorism Analyst, told Sputnik.
He, Scott Bennett, a Former US Army Psychological Warfare Officer and US State Department Counterterrorism Analyst, said that the accidental discovery of the documents in a basement of a building re-captured by Russian forces in Mariupol is "just the beginning of a trail of evidence that will most likely lead through the dark and misery-filled world between 2008 to 2019 when Ukrainians and Russians were used as human experiments to explore just how malevolent, hysterical, paranoid, delusional, and psychotic the human person can be manipulated, medicated, and surgically altered into being."
When asked why Mariupol was picked for the tests, Bennett said it was "the perfect place to conduct this medical experimentalizing because people in the city area could be easily trapped, captured, imprisoned, and experimented on with the cries of terror and screams of pain at the suffering of these experiments being hidden in the deep basements underground."
"This was one of the centerpieces of the Westโs agenda to use and abuse Ukraine by performing bio-warfare experimentation on Ukrainian soil because it had been outlawed in America and the West in general. This was also one of the reasons why then Vice President Biden had threatened to withhold billions of dollars from Ukraine unless a prosecutor who had been investigating this corruption was terminated. Victoria Nuland, the Witch Architect of the [2014 Maidan] Coup Dโetat against Kiev, had used the CIA, Georgian Mercenaries, and American Politicians like โHell Bounded Worldโs Deadliest Warmonger John McCainโ and โBoak Bollocks Senile Oaf White Trash Human Feces Lindsey Grahamโ and others to cultivate a revolutionary atmosphere in Kiev. She was also the first person to openly admit to Senator Marco Rubio that The US Had Bioweapons, pharmaceutical companies, and massive experiments being conducted in the dark basements of blood-soaked buildings in Ukraine," Bennett noted.
"The same control mechanism that works could, without a problem, conduct experiments that would not be permitted on their own populations. The Ukrainians have no government to protect them from this," William Jones the former Washington Bureau Chief of Executive Intelligence Review and a Non-resident Fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University concluded.
โ ***Oleg Burunov | Tuesday February 13, 2023
"Given the present situation in Ukraine with the growing understanding that Ukraine โ or NATO - cannot โwinโ this conflict using conventional weapons, as well as the determination of NATO not to accept a peaceful resolution unless Russia is soundly defeated, it could well lead to the utilization of some form of biological warfare on the part of NATO to โeven the playing fieldโ," Jones warned.
In the spring of 2022, Russia's Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops brought to light the alarming scope of US military-biological activities taking place at numerous locations in Ukraine. These investigations revealed the collaboration between Washington and Kiev in researching and handling various highly dangerous pathogens. Subsequently, several of these findings have been independently corroborated.
โ Oleg Burunov | Sputnik International | Wednesday February 14, 2024
Georgia is out of euros..... Dont talk to me for like another 2 years (i have high hopes for wc๐๐ป)
Also i want to say thank you to our boys, who did everything to make us proud. Thank you guys for giving me this amazing adventure with you. The fact that this is our FIRST time on euros and WE MADE IT TO ROUND 16???? thats so cool!!! Always walk with your head held high! This is not an end, this is just the beginning ๐ฌ๐ช๐ช๐บ
Giorgi mamardashvili is my heroโผ๏ธโผ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ช (i love you)
And Giorgi Miqautadze lock your doors (im gonna kidnap you and marry you) ๐
Top 5 NEW COUNTRIES to visit (ur not allowed to say one youโve already been to!) ๐๐๐๐บ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐งณ๐งณ๐งณ๐งณ๐ฉ๏ธ๐ฉ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ง๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐น๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ง๐ญ๐ง๐ฉ๐ง๐ง๐ง๐พ๐ง๐ช๐ง๐ด๐ง๐น๐ง๐ฒ๐ง๐ฏ๐ง๐ฟ๐ง๐ฆ๐ง๐ผ๐ง๐ท๐ป๐ฌ๐ง๐ณ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง๐ซ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ญ๐จ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐จ๐จ๐ป๐ง๐ถ๐ฐ๐พ๐จ๐ณ๐จ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ด๐น๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ฝ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ท๐จ๐ฎ๐จ๐ท๐จ๐ท๐จ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฉ๐จ๐บ๐จ๐ผ๐จ๐พ๐จ๐ฟ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฌ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ป๐ฌ๐ถ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ช๐ธ๐ฟ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ด๐ซ๐ฐ๐ช๐บ๐ช๐น๐ซ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ท๐ฌ๐ซ๐ต๐ซ๐น๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฌ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ท๐ฎ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ณ๐ญ๐น๐ฌ๐พ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐น๐ฌ๐น๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐พ๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ธ๐ฉ๐น๐ญ๐ต๐ฒ๐ธ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ธ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ธ๐ต๐น๐ต๐ท๐ต๐พ
Ugh why couldnโt you have asked for my top 5 favorite countries Iโve been to?! ๐
The top two are easy because theyโre on my bucket listโฆ.
1. New Zeeland (should have happened in 2021, fuck Corona) ๐ณ๐ฟ
2. Iceland ๐ฎ๐ธ
After that it becomes a waaaaaaaay harderโฆ
3. Italy (can you believe I live this close and have never been?!) ๐ฎ๐น
4. Norway (where I wanna see the northern lights) ๐ณ๐ด
5. Scotland (and basically all of the UK because Iโve only ever been in London ๐) ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
I wanna see sooooooo much more tho, honorable mentions to Prague at Christmas time (I know, not a country), Mexico & Switzerland (where Iโve been but only for a hockey game ๐), a safari in Africa ๐๐๐t