Russia - threadbanned users in OP

People won't stop buying from China, most people only care about themselves and their pocket. It's cheap = it's good, worry about the consequences another day.

See climate change for more evidence of this short-term thinking

Russia is a large market for Chinese consumer goods. I don’t think it greatly benefits them if Russians don’t have money to spend.

Why? Those regions are gone, even the most optimistic person can see that.

300,000 troops is not far off what they had when this started.

And you get Putin to recognize a country he wouldn't do only 3 weeks ago.

This has to end before it gets any worse.

Thanks. I felt it was a fantastic explanation on why escalation is to be avoided, and why NATO/TheWest is actively avoiding such. Lots of hearts in the right places here, but also lots of 'accusation of appeasement' - which is wrong. it can seem all to easy to accuse someone of being a keyboard coward.. which is ridiculous. There seems to be a great number of Keyboard Von Clausewitz type talk. Without full understanding of what that could lead to.

So yes, the video seemed apt.

3 Russian billionaires have resigned from the board of investment firm LetterOne after it locked out 2 Russian oligarchs over the invasion of Ukraine.

The definition of an unreliable source. He is a well known alt right conspiracy theorist (e.g. pizzagate)

Perhaps, it's the relentless flow of information we are receiving by the hour - new sanctions, Ukrainian gains and so on, but you have to think something has got to give soon. The analysts and experts told us to dig in for a long campaign but the Kremlin must be under extraordinary pressure at the moment trying to put out fires which seem to be increasingly exponentially by the day. I dunno if the likes of McDonalds shutting up shop is included in Putin's daily briefing, but I'd say the man must be bewildered at this stage.

A "biological research facility" could be something like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, it doesn't necessarily mean it is a biological weapons research facility.

The way it is phrased could encourage the conspiracy nuts in the US, they might think the democrats were funding adrenochrome harvesting experiments or some other rubbish. That plays right into the hands of russians.

You claimed 'an aircraft carrier with same tech ain’t gonna be cheaper to build in China'.

It absolutely would be.

A lot of emotion and very little information in your posting.