China isn't gonna get in this though
Ukrainian War Developments
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Why will Xi get involved? This is Putin's own actions and he also caused serious difficulties to China's diplomacy for having to balance the West and Russia on this.
What strategy? Can you, please, connect the dots for us?
And, a late-mid-twentieth-century war, at that; this is pitiful!
I am not sure what exactly you are disagreeing with me. I think Ukraine should stop fighting because my judgment of Russian intention is that it's not to rule Ukraine. I think Russia would accept a neutral Ukraine as a buffer. That's why I think it's in Ukraine's national interest to stop fighting. a very small lost of sovereignty for lower casualty and damage is worth it. But if their judgment is Russia intends to colonize Ukraine and will butcher a lot of civilians, like Imperial Japan did to China, certainly they should fight.
Afghan are tribal people. First sign of trouble they run for the hill and coordinate guerrilla warfare from the hills.
Same. Strategy is ok, but the implementation of it is seriously lacking.
And its not like this is the Russian Armed Forces fault. The fault is at the top, at Putin who only order 30k-60k troops to invade. What a joke! what can these extremely low number of troops going to do in invading such a big country as Ukraine?
Can you imagine using <100k to invade? Lol. He basically set them up to fail.
Russia is fighting with one hand tied. It is clearly trying to avoid large scale aerial bombardment with unguided munitions despite their lack of PGMs. I don't think Russian public or even the military itself have much stomach for massive Ukrainian casualties.
I remember Chinese FM spokesperson said something to the effect that Russia had declared their military targets to be military installations and China was monitoring the situation. Chinese positive neutrality is not unconditional.
I rarely see Chinese internet this divided on a geopolitical issue. Chinese government is obviously trying to shape public opinion by airing grievances against American imperialism, but major civilian casualties could turn Chinese public opinion sharply against Russia, especially if Chinese nationals were harmed.
I remember Chinese FM spokesperson said something to the effect that Russia had declared their military targets to be military installations and China was monitoring the situation. Chinese positive neutrality is not unconditional.
I rarely see Chinese internet this divided on a geopolitical issue. Chinese government is obviously trying to shape public opinion by airing grievances against American imperialism, but major civilian casualties could turn Chinese public opinion sharply against Russia, especially if Chinese nationals were harmed.
I think Russia might be holding these units in reserve in case of NATO counterattack.
The more trouble or sanctions Russia get themselves into the bigger the leverage China have over Russia.
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