I’m not surprised. Xi wants to invade Taiwan.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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The root cause is putin, his nazi based wagner group and russia imperial expansion of colonies. Russia seems to be the only major power that is still expanding territories in modern times. Unless Trump decides to invade Greenland.
I agree. The war in Ukraine can only truly be resolved by removing it's root causes. Remove Putin, and the war ends.
I would go one step further and remove all of the imperialist thinking in Russia, just to be on the safe side.
Why don't we split that shit up? Russia is so large and has so few people in comparison they might as well be a bunch of smaller states who can't threaten their neighbors like that.
Denuclearise them too, but to assure them stability, promise to protect them.
Give Ukraine their nuclear arsenal back for breach of contract.
Russia is essentially a small state with a couple of centuries of imperialist thinking.
Ah yes partitioning by foreign powers has always gone so well in the past! Why don't we try that again? I mean just look at Israel/Palestine and India/Pakistan! What great success stories 🥲
Why don't we let them split them selves? They already did it once before
Ah yes the breakup of the USSR went incredibly well, good thing there's no ongoing conflicts over disputed territory from that split up going on in Ukraine
If I despute if you are a human, instead of s bot, then isn't my despute a bit of a stretch?
Saying Ukraine is disputed territory is a bit of a stretch, it's just imperial ambitions by Putin. Ukraine is older than the USSR and Russia.
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons to get security guarantees from Russia.
I want to note that the war has broad support among the Russian public, so while it might not be Ukraine they'll attack another one of their neighbors if only Putin is removed. See: Georgia, Chechnya.
Worth noting that it is illegal in Russia to criticize the war, so saying you don't support it is probably a good way to get yourself sent to the front lines in an infantry uniform. So, it's difficult to gauge how many people actually genuinely support it or not.
Put out Putin.
So now the EU will treat China as an enemy. Right? RIGHT??
The doctrine of the EU so far, is to consider China a multi-faced player: a partner for cooperation, an economic competitor and a systemic rival (e.g. it's possible to cooperate with China on climate, but not on human rights).
So far, China has also been a multi-faced player. Xi has patted Putin on the back and declared "unlimited partnership", but no Chinese weapons have been seen in Ukraine. Chinese soldiers have been observed there, but they seem to be really few for a country of that size - either mercenaries or people obtaining first hand experience under mercenary cover. Too few to matter as soldiers.
China has warm trade relations with Russia and has helped Russia source technology and endure sanctions. However, they haven't made a special and dedicated effort to insulate Russia from secondary sanctions, and several Chinese companies have applied sanctions on Russia as a result.
On other occasions, Chinese representatives have said nice words about Ukraine's territorial integrity. But deeds haven't followed.
In UN votes about Ukraine, China often abstains.
Officially, China doesn't sell drones to Russia or Ukraine. In reality, both Ukrainian and Russian drones are full of Chinese parts. Ukrainian government is asking every bigger player to have a plan B that works without China, but few really have one. What Russian government asks of their drone makers, I don't know.
Of course they would. They need a justification for when they decide to invade Taiwan.
They also need a regional human shield buffer against west
Fuck China, can't believe people are falling for their propaganda these days when they directly support Putfuck and his war machine and then have the gall to talk about honor and respect. China is still an evil dictatorship and every day we should be reminded of that.
You don't know shit about China
I would say something but trying to think logically alone is good enough to realise why china would even have this relationship
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