That is the indication of petroyuan taking shape as I said earlier in #55,134
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Can some of our forum members finally agree not to hyperventilate every time China gets tech sanctioned or some politicians fly to Taiwan now?
The Minsk agreements were a series of international agreements which sought to end the Donbas war fought between armed Russian separatist groups and Armed Forces of Ukraine. The first, known as the Minsk Protocol, was drafted in 2014 by the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine, consisting of Ukraine, Russia, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), with mediation by the leaders of France and Germany in the so-called Normandy Format. After extensive talks in Minsk, Belarus, the agreement was signed on 5 September 2014 by representatives of the Trilateral Contact Group and, without recognition of their status, by the then-leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). This agreement followed multiple previous attempts to stop the fighting in the region and aimed to implement an immediate ceasefire.
The agreement failed to stop fighting, and was thus followed with a revised and updated agreement, Minsk II, which was signed on 12 February 2015. This agreement consisted of a package of measures, including a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line, release of prisoners of war, constitutional reform in Ukraine granting self-government to certain areas of Donbas and restoring control of the state border to the Ukrainian government. While fighting subsided following the agreement's signing, it never ended completely, and the agreement's provisions were never fully implemented.
Amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine in early 2022, Russia officially recognised the Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics on 21 February 2022. Following that decision, on 22 February 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin declared that the Minsk agreements "no longer existed", and that Ukraine, not Russia, was to blame for their collapse. Russia then invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
In either case, it just ends up on what you believe more. Did Germany have an independent foreign policy or did they not. The UK throw that out a few decades ago.
Not much in this is new really. Russia exported the Rezonans-NE radar to Iran for example.
And if you believe that the Iranians built the Karrar MBT by themselves without aid I have a bridge to sell you.
Now that UN sanctions on Iran expired Russia can sell them all the weapons they want.
I am more concerned that Putin was delusional enough to believe western "promises" lol
Taxiya's post #55199 does point out it might not be that likely that Putin is that 'naive', but rather pretending in front of media, or doing it so he can make excuses or demand more in future negotiations or the likes.
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The problem with American style capitalism is someone private has to profit from everything. It's like the rule of fight club. It's the one and only rule and everyone has to stick by it no matter what. The West's supply chain problems where they have to go to non-Western countries for their supplies because that's the only way they can make and save the most money possible is because someone private has to make money. Soros hates China because China doesn't give vampires like him free reign to bleed out money from China.
People are taunting how Apple is leaving China. The China end only gets $10 out of every $1000 iPhone so no big loss to China but Apple would be losing a large market so go taunt away. Like most things China gets out from, it's usually the beginning of its end. Look at crypto and how they were laughing at China getting out from it. It's been downhill ever since. And now China is getting out from the West.
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