The Ukraine war thread
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Well now, what have we here?
Like I said from the onset, at best China and India are only fair weather friends:
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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Sooner or later China will call its mortgage. May not be in Putin’s time, but China will someday come knocking. The Kremlin, or whatever new age Fascist state is left if of it in the wake of the current criminal regime, will run to the West for assistance.
We should think twice about assisting.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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The enemy of my enemy may not be my friend, but they may prove useful. Assuming that Russia still has any nukes that are reliable - an uncertain thing given recent kleptocracy in the armed forces, they could still inflict some damage on China. And if it’s within a decade of this misadventure it will be all they have left.
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@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:
The Kremlin...will run to the West for assistance.
We should think twice about assisting.Why? I understand that a weak Russia is probably in our nations' best interests.
However, if that weakness comes at the cost of a strong China, is that a good thing?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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China will, for the foreseeable future, strengthen regardless of what happens inside Russia.
Although I am loathe to sound like a bean counting technocrat, after the trillion plus dollars, GBP and Euros in investment, technical assistance and humanitarian aid that the West has pumped into the USSR and The Russian Federation, why would the West want not wash its hands of the place?
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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A. Could be propaganda.
B. Could be Russian drones.Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:
China will, for the foreseeable future, strengthen regardless of what happens inside Russia.
Although I am loathe to sound like a bean counting technocrat, after the trillion plus dollars, GBP and Euros in investment, technical assistance and humanitarian aid that the West has pumped into the USSR and The Russian Federation, why would the West want not wash its hands of the place?
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-100-dolphins-feared-dead-152539781.html
"Russian naval activity due to the war in Ukraine may have killed more than 100 dolphins in the Black Sea last month, scientists are reporting."
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That's a lot of the problem. I see things all day long from Ukrainya Pravda. I don't believe they are any more reliable than RT. I'm not sure I believe most of what I read from US sources.
You'd think they could have used some name other than Pravda. It comes with a lot of baggage.
"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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My understanding is the UP despite its name is fairly reliable with a moderate centre left bias in its editorials. Unlike RT which is wholly Kremlin owned and controlled, UP’s ownership appears to be held by private interests.
I certainly do not rely on North American MSM for news on that part of the world. American think tanks and universities on the other hand, produce a lot of first rate information on the war much of which is posted to YouTube or their individual websites. Likewise Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe offers good reporting and if nothing else provides good starting points for more in depth searching of specific items.
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Explosions over the Kremlin?
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/explosion-over-the-kremlin?r=17wfy3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
