Ukrainian War Developments

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Bellum_Romanum

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Phead128 said:
Well, Russia has a GDP smaller than Guangdong, China, so it's a lot easier to cut off SWIFT to an economic minnow than an economic superpower like China.

Only a select number of banks were kicked off SWIFT, so Germany can still pay Russia for it's gas imports, which satisfied Wall Street, Big Corporations, and Billionaire class of avoiding an European energy crisis rippling throughout the world. These Capitalists are flexible in their Russia- or China-hating ideology when the costs are too high.
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Address the points Prof. Mearsheimer has been pointing out since 2015.

 
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Suetham said:
Putin's phrase that he claims that the fall of the USSR was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century is in relation to the more than 20 million Russians who simply found themselves in another country overnight. It has nothing to do with lost territories.
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and we can see Putin is 'gathering the kinsmen' by annexing Crimea and soon annexing Russian-majority Donetsk/Luhansk. So yea, salami slicing the way back to Tsarist/Soviet empire. We don't even know if Russia plans to occupy/annex Eastern Ukraine which is majority Russian speaking either.
 
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Phead128 said:
A red princess is minor in the grand scheme of things. If Mao Zedong's son can be killed in Korean War, then China can lose a thousand of these 'red nobility' princesses and still survive just fine.
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It is not that Meng is so important. It is the underhanded tactic that the US willing to employ.
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It's pretty symbolic since it's impossible to certify the origin of cotton. China has many tricky ways to obfuscate, redirect, or outright lie about the origin of XJ cotton to evade sanctions.

Here is a great article on easy Chinese exporters can evade US tariffs using loopholes/tricks/obfuscation/lies and why US-China trade deficit is expanding. US isn't even investigating tariff invasions or basically given up enforcing the tariffs.

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That's beside the point. Chinese aluminum company was able to evade the ban but the US later found out and fine them billion of dollars.
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China won the trade war and easily evading tariffs, so let the salty Americans ban XJ cotton as a consolation prize, Beijing will evade those sanction too!

Fair enough. Salami slicing can potentially lead to complete de-coupling, I hope that doesn't happen... but time will tell.
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No problem of being optimistic but always be prepared for the worst such as China is expanding the use of CIPS now to be a major platform to conduct trade.
 
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What is obvious is that the Russian MO is in some sort of information blackout for some reason, so this creates an information vacuum easily exploited by astroturfers, professional redditors and nazi-lovers alike.

But what is true at the end of the day is that Ukraine has lost control of 22% of its territory and the Chechens are 6km outside Kiev.
 
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