Putin is beaten and bruised and now he’s heading to China – and he needs his most important ally now more than ever

But what will he find when gets there?

Putin is in pretty rough shape after a failed mutiny held on Russian soil and little progress to show in the war. in Ukraine.

And now he’s scheduled to visit China for the first time since before the invasion.

China has been the Kremlin’s most important ally through the past year and a half that I’m sure Putin would have probably expected to have gone differently.

So what can we expect from a meeting of the two leaders?