NATO: russian troops invade ukraine

[The Comrade]

true. there was a study of russian survey takers and something like 25% said they lie on them in support of putin out of some vague fear. he might not be even half as popular as he often portrays himself

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[Kane]

Yeah, but china will do it's best to stay neutral in public opinion. They gave Putin the go ahead when they signed that LNG deal. China knows Putin is cray cray, they're banking on it. Their support is implicit. Anything to distract away from china.

Russia will go to war when it THINKS it has buddies. Divide and conquer baby.

[eynon81]

[The Comrade]

[eynon81]

ps....our own power players are pretty open about their desire for regime change in Russia.

[The Comrade]

russia needs more than just regime change, it needs to be broken up. everything east of the urals and south of volgograd needs to just break into their own nation-states.

[eynon81]

[The Comrade]

they would inflict some military losses and temporary economic losses as far as consumer goods are concerned but any war they fight with us will be fought in their backyard. shit, all you have to do is destroy a handful of china's major ports and you've essentially halted their economy for 10 years.

As it stands, china isn't looking the most stable right now. lot of unrest in hong kong right now and i feel like there's some sympathy among the rest of china for them. on top of that you've got the uighurstan getting uppity. the last thing they need is a devastated economy.

plus there's the long-term impacts. how willing will businesses be to set up in china? to move to china? think the west is going to continue important chinese goods en masse? they would cease to be a country overnight. chiang kai shek's corpse is salivating at the thought of it.