Commentary Whatever you may think of Donald Trump, communist China and Russia were in relative check during his administration. The grand alliance between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, evidently cemented during the Beijing Olympics with a lengthy document, wasn’t fully in place.  Trump, at the least, kept them guessing and somewhat on the defensive. Interestingly, that same grand alliance, some even call it a “bromance,” was also not fully in place until after President Joe Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan. Now, we have rumors rampant, reported by The New York Times, of all outlets, that Xi asked his friend Vladimir to wait until the Games were over before invading Ukraine. How collegial.   Given how things have transpired, these rumors—denied, of course, by the Chinese—are all too easy to believe. If true, the ramifications are more than slightly alarming. Unfortunately, or rather, disastrously, we now have a president who isn’t sufficiently competent on multiple levels …