This 360 degree talk reminds so much about my younger years being a fervent console warrior in the xbox 360 camp...Kinda hard not to underestimate your intelligence when you want Putin to do a 360.
This 360 degree talk reminds so much about my younger years being a fervent console warrior in the xbox 360 camp...Kinda hard not to underestimate your intelligence when you want Putin to do a 360.
What arms would China supply Russia that would allow it to end the war quickly though?
I can only think of ISR and drones, but even then, still not likely to suddenly make the war end quickly in Russia's favor.
They can conclusively prove it originated from China. Just need to find any random Russian soldier willing to leak some closer pictures or capture some of it from a cache themselves.What's stopping US from literally fabricating or making-up shit about Chinese lethal aid, if it truly wanted to sanction China? (e.g., "OMG, these crashed made-in-China lethal attack drones has Chinese characters in the source codes! It even has a hint of Guangdong accent in the Chinese characters. CHINA BADD!!!!")
Like they can literally make up anything.
However, by threatening China publically, it was affirming what we already knew: China wasn't going to send any obvious overt lethal aid, only dual-use purpose that US cannot conclusively prove originated from China, and if they really wanted to, they can lie and fabricate made-in-China origin anyways.
Why bribe a random Russian soldiers when you use photoshop to manipulate images and amplify it with US-controlled media until lies becomes "facts" (e.g., Xinjiang detention camp "leak photos")?They can conclusively prove it originated from China. Just need to find any random Russian soldier willing to leak some closer pictures or capture some of it from a cache themselves.
But will they? No. Because they can't do anything about it anyways.
Recession fears return after German economy shrank 0.4% in fourth quarter
High inflation drives sharp falls in consumer spending and investment, revised figures show
Germany’s economy shrank more than expected in the fourth quarter according to revised figures, raising doubts over the ability of Europe’s biggest economy to escape recession and recover swiftly from its energy crisis.
High inflation drove sharp falls in German consumer spending and investment in buildings and machinery in the final quarter of 2022, the federal statistics office said on Friday, which led to a 0.4 per cent contraction in gross domestic product from the previous quarter.
That is the second downgrade in Germany’s latest GDP figures in the past month. Initially Destatis estimated the economy had stagnated, before announcing a 0.2 per cent fall in fourth-quarter output in its flash estimate at the end of January.
In addition to what they have already said about China's ISR assets, what the Russians would most need that the Chinese would have to offer would be this:What arms would China supply Russia that would allow it to end the war quickly though?
I can only think of ISR and drones, but even then, still not likely to suddenly make the war end quickly in Russia's favor.
Even a relatively small amount of support could have a snowball effect. Give Russians effective SEAD and it paves the way for the heavy bombers to fly over the Ukraine unobstructed.What arms would China supply Russia that would allow it to end the war quickly though?
I can only think of ISR and drones, but even then, still not likely to suddenly make the war end quickly in Russia's favor.
Most of that isn't just easily gonna be achieved by just giving equipment and arms though.Not just ISR drones, but the full catalog from man portable suicide drones to every flavour of loitering munitions imaginable to full stealth strike drones. And those won’t be provided in the token numbers that the west has supplied armies, rather in true industrial quantities that the Russians would be able to use loitering munitions like they currently use Grads.
Unlike the Russians, who allowed the impressive soviet logistics and support vehicle arsenals to simply rot away in storage, the PLA not only massively invested to build up its own vast and comprehensive support vehicle ecosystem to rival and vastly surpass that of the USSR. Modern day PLA rapid de-mining, road building and river crossing capacities alone would fundamentally change the nature of the war by allowing the Russians to quickly bypass the most fortified Ukrainian positions and rapidly flank them.
PLA EW, jamming and hard kill capabilities will vastly degrade Ukrainian NATO ISR capabilities without needing to shoot down manned NATO assets and allow massed armour formations to move without being instantly discovered by enemy recon drones and deleted by artillery.
Speaking of artillery, PLA systems are far more advanced than most Russian systems and able to rapidly shoot and scoot and with their digital fire control and smart munitions, they can hit just as, if not more accurately than Ukraine’s NATO systems, but have the numbers and volume of fires of Russia’s artillery. PLA counter battery capabilities are also far more advanced and organic to their artillery units.
The area where the Chinese can help the Russians most is in the air, but that is also the area where the Russians will need the most training to take full advantage of all the new modern systems and weapons China could provide. But modern self defence pods and stand-off PGMs should be able to be used by the Russians easily and quickly enough.
But to be honest, most of the above are overkill. All China needs to do is open the floodgates on laser guided artillery rounds for the Russians and get DJI to slap a military grade targeting laser on an appropriately sized drone and send those en mass and that alone will be enough to completely turn the tide of the way in Russia’s favour.
Hell, just the PLA giving Russia all the Intel Chinese military satellites picks up would be a total game changer for the Russians.