• deleted@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Almost all countries other than USA, Russia, and China have to pick a side.

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        1 year ago

        Well, their economy isn’t collapsing any time soon. And they managed to destroy modern military systems supplied by NATO.

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          1 year ago

          Hasn’t their economy already shrunk by 5% since the war began?

          Seems like they’re going to become a vassal state of China.

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            I’ve been saying for the last couple of months that Xi is in a perfect position to reclaim the Vladivostok oblast. The native population is over 40% Han, not just Chinese, the type of Chinese the CCP gives a shit about. He could easily appear strong internally, and reclaim former Chinese territory that the Russians invaded in 1901, under the excuse of “a special military operation to defend the ethnic Chinese people in the region.” I seriously doubt that any other country other than Russia would even bat an eye, and Russia would be impotent to defend itself.

            This would also give China a port that is outside of the first chain of islands that the US has set up

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                China probably has more working nukes than Russia. Maintenance hasn’t been their strong suit, making them a liability. I wouldn’t be surprised if 9/10 aren’t working, or will malfunction on launch, causing Russia to nuke themselves, and the best part is they don’t even know which ones actually got maintained.

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                    1 year ago

                    Not my call. If it was I would stop hacking the West, and start an organized campaign of their professional hackers to shut down Russian government servers, target the most recently made Russian nukes to destroy them with long range supersonic cruise missiles, send half my Chinese fleet to sink the Black Sea Fleet, and finally start my uncontested ground invasion. They could probably kill Putin in the process since I’m certain that Chinese Intelligence knows where he is, thereby ensuring enough Russian confusion that nukes will never be deployed. I may even ask the west to just kinda ignore the shit I’m about to do, but I don’t know how strong the Chinese and EU relations are.

                    But, again, not my call.

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              1 year ago

              He’s going to have to do something, they’re going to have their own economic issues to deal with…

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          Their gdp is production of weapons right now. After they lose no one is going to want these weapons and they have been produced for the trash.

          My point is it’s not real growth.

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          Europe could stand against Russia without American support. probably not China though. china couldn’t attack any American aligned state without facing humiliation though

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        It is, but I wouldn’t count on our potential to wage an effective modern war in functional cooperation with the many countries in the EU. Especially when it is a war taking place out of Europe and not a defensive action.

        A militaristic endeavor would surely be held up and manipulated by opposing countries within the alliance, just like it is now with economic decisions.

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      1 year ago

      I’m highly biased but that seems like an easy choice, geography notwithstanding.