• lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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    The point is that the US can’t waste resources in Ukraine anymore, they need to pivot to the pacific ASAP since they themselves recognize that the window they have to challenge China is closing. The point of getting europe to pick up the tab in Ukraine is to guarantee the conflict gets frozen to be picked up later.

    Now you might say Russia won’t agree to any sort of european “peacekeeping” force in Ukraine (and they shouldn’t), but that can be said about both Minsk agreements, so who knows.

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      USA + EU failed to even economically defeat Russia, and militarily they noticeably disarmed themselves. What US alone think they can do against China which is at least 10 times stronger than Russia in everything?

      Well everything except nukes. It could be it. Fuck.

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        The strategy they’ll try is to goad them into a war in Taiwan to justify an economic blockade against shipping to and from China. The marines are already being trained and equipped for such. As crazy as they are they wouldn’t actually risk invading any part of mainland China.

        Also China has a no first use nuclear policy, so that’s unlikely to come into play.