In reality, to be honest, Russia would have preferred to be on the European side than the Chinese side.
When Trump took office, his pandering to Russia and trying to rebuild relationship was actually a pretty smart move.

If that was successful, China would have been contained and China would have gave into the unfavorable trade terms that US was negotiating.
The market would have re opened and banking regulations in China would have loosen up. Funds would have been easier to move in and out officially and unofficially.
And I would have made more

Few tabloids but i take it seriously considering Zelensky himself dodged it about Crimean question.
Thus Crimea is now 70% populated by russians because of soviets & then putin genocides, deportations, "wars" etc...
I dont see why this barbaric authoritarian kleptocracy could argue about having any territory anyway.

Russia’s ethnic minorities lament the war in Ukraine​
Ethnic minority troops are said to be dying in greater numbers than their Slav compatriots in the so-called ‘special military operation’.

According to open source researchers, soldiers with roots in poorer regions such as Buryatia and Dagestan are disproportionately represented among Russian casualties in Ukraine.
“Most of the soldiers and officers of the ground forces and the airborne forces come from poor Russian towns and villages,” military specialist Pavel Luzin told Al Jazeera.
“This social-economic stratification has a long-term tradition in the Russian armed forces because young men from the cities with relatively good education serve in other military branches … but the infantry consists of badly-educated soldiers from poor families and regions.”

Buryatia, in Siberia, was once a part of Mongolia that was conquered by Cossacks in the 17th century.
“We can’t determine our own politics – if we had a real federation, the head of our republic could say no, Buryats won’t fight in this criminal war. But he keeps providing cannon fodder for Putin,” Victoria Maladaeva, of the Free Buryatia Foundation, told Al Jazeera.
“Buryatia, like the other ethnic republics, is governed by the colonial policies of Moscow,” Maladaeva continued.
“Our languages and history are disappearing off the face of the Earth, while Moscow sucks all the money and resources out of the provinces. Moscow is a beautiful city but it’s such a facade of all of Russia, because if you go just a little further, the houses are falling apart, there are no roads, there’s no work.”

Entire Kherson is in booby traps

We said at the end of the year, didn't we? Ya never know, I'm full of boundless optimism for Vladimir Putin's brilliant leadership.


There's no problem relying on a single source for anything, be it gas or computer chips or doritos, if you just get along with them and don't intentionally try everything possible to create hostility to achieve other ends.

If this was about ensuring more sources for chips, there would be no reason to wage war against China's tech sector, and yet we see a full scale sanctions war against that, coming from America. If they wanted to ensure access to chips, they wouldn't be repeatedly and ever more egregiously violating the OCP while they attempt these onshoring efforts.

It's clear that the onshoring effort is being done not to benefit America in any way, but to open up more options for America to escalate hostilities with the PRC.

This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Nov 11 2022 04:52pm

Well done. You memorized everything the news outlet taught you. You may now repeat that stuff ! Good bot!

Even if this surrender offer is a hoax (it is probably) , the deal is pretty decent: i don't think that people who died in this "war" were NPCs.

This post was edited by Meanwhile on Nov 11 2022 04:56pm

I thought it was "by the end of the year," but I can wait.

How many people died in the middle east so we could get their oil, drug $, bring our banking institution/contractors over there?

Now just have to do 2+2 and understand that what happened between Russia & Ukraine was a solid way to launder money on top of making MASSIVE amount of profits selling those same products that used to sell much cheaper. On top of that, you put a few buzzwords like "PUTIN WILL USE NUKES" like back in the days "LETS INVADE MIDDLE EAST FOR THEIR WMD" and guess what? people still too gullible and still believe that obvious shit once again. Three time the charm am i right? So i expect the next country we invade using those buzzwords will be supported by online bots who like to repeat MSM buzzwords.

This post was edited by SunnyvaleTrailerPark on Nov 11 2022 05:10pm

The civilians seem happy that the orc invaders have retreated