Yes China will do what is best for China. However China imports a huge amount of coal. It's electricity is based mostly on coal and will be for the next 20 years. While most I'd produced domestically by Chiba itself it need to import 350 million tons a year.
At present most of that coal comes mostly from Australia and Indonesia. It is trying to import from Russia but volumes are low at present.
China would have two main fears. First that an embargo on being allowed to import coal. Next that more import duties on goods it's exports to Western democracies
Australia and the US are concerned with the Chinese. The nuclear submarine deal and the increasing number of American troops in northern Australia.
What I have said is contained in simple English in my posts. This is a descent into time wasting.
I have answered the question regarding avoidance of the war.
Ronald Reagan used to collect Soviet jokes, I'll part with this one.
There's three dogs, an American dog, a Polish dog, and a russian dog.
The American dog says, if I bark loud enough for long enough my people will give me meat.
The Polish dog says, what's meat?
The Russian dog says, what's bark?
No you haven’t. There has been a war in Ukraine for 8 years you indicated that Ukraine was a peaceful nation up to three weeks ago.
I have stated that I think Putins escalation is wrong and as we can see has led to massive destruction and casualties for the Ukrainian people and also his own forces and through sanctions his own people.
There should have been better engagement in diplomatic solutions over those 8 years to try and avoid this conflict.
I believe the sanctions will start to bite soon on Russia but will also impact the US and Europe and that this will lead hopefully to a diplomatic solution.
UKR holds upper hand in force-on-force vs RU troops.
RU holds powerful advantage on attacks against civilians.
https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1505179341478584322?s=20&t=evynY2TcJgbQUVBDt7IwjA
Read the below thread on you'll get your answer
He gives fascinating insights into the whole conflict and a in-depth look at Russian society past and present
Some detail in there but it’s a bit light. It all seems a bit mad that a war was allowed to continue for 8 years without more diplomatic engagement.
Europe continues to buy Russian gas and oil and did so all throughout that period.
Putin must have lost it during lockdown to think this invasion was ever going to be a success. It is a disastrous conflict with massive suffering for the Ukrainian people. His own people are sacrificing so much for very little reward. I can’t see a regime change in Russia either.
Another huge bug bear for Putin that he alluded to was Ukriane damming the water supply into Crimea, they went from having 250k hectares of land for crops in 2013, to 14k last year, and the whole area was nearly out of water for its general population aswell, the first thing the Russians done when they went into Ukraine was to blow up the dam holding water back from Crimea....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gzeromedia.com/amp/crimea-river-russia-ukraines-water-conflict-2654805747
It's fairly one sided?
It's well known that Ukraine has some very questionable groups active in that area. Neither side are in the right.
Really? who are these questionable groups you speak of?
You are a bit of a b.s artist, last week you were saying that Wall-street were betting on Russia, I asked you to name these Investment bankers buying. You didn't because you can't as there is none.
A lot of your posts seem to be very anti-western anti-American with a lot of unproven and unverified information. Some free advice, you really need to be careful what you say as this is a War time we are in, and while we have the freedom of speech, we don't have a freedom to spread untruths or half truths. Don't be fooled into thinking you are anonymous here, I can assure you that is not the case.
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Azov battalion
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There was talk in 2015 in the House of Representatives of not funding the group because weapons provided weren’t used for the intended purpose https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Azov_Battalion
There was also footage of them greasing bullets in bacon fat etc.
Supposedly there are ultranationalist groups involved in the Ukrainian parliament however they are insignificant something like 2%. Hardly grounds for an invasion.
I wonder will this moment lead to broader discussion on energy and resource security? Prices of gas, bread, pasta, fuel etc already on the rise. What will they be like in 2023.
Don’t me it Eddie Hobbs trying to make back the Detroit money
Sledgehammer to craic a walnut would best describe putins current actions in fairness, his latest thread is fascinating re America basically industrilizing Russia in the 30's and Stalin then purging the men responsible for implementing it, its crazy the way history repeats itself
https://mobile.twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1505248198998196226
That is true but at the same time there's a certain bias that runs through those tweets that twists the story the way the author wants it to be.
You could tell an equally biased story from the other side that portrays Russia in a different light and it would probably be equally true.
We get bombarded with the side that suits big business and political interests the best, with no regard to what is best for the common person.
Info wars*
(not that info wars...)
https://twitter.com/carljackmiller/status/1504896238826700800?s=20&t=wOddnNCLxmiqbNM-IlJGxg
Well done France, now send that €22bn to Ukraine
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1505532687993430023?s=20&t=aQGLqOdt6X_ItLbHiCng0g
All these funds need to be managed correctly when been sent to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government was considered one of the most corrupt in the world up until recently, I hope there is a proper structure in place to manage the weaponry and finances filtering in.
30 pieces of silver and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out 😂
https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1505550802529796100?s=20&t=RZqVg5cxQyGVcetsGU4xYQ
Was/Will
https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1505624148931981320?s=20&t=z4swZMAiOE9y91PzVfveVg
Getting their retaliation in prior to the Extraordinary NATO Summit 🤔
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1505638932217749508?s=20&t=z4swZMAiOE9y91PzVfveVg
I saw that Russia and Ukraine are the two most corrupt nations in Europe according to some experts.
Surely donations to the established agencies and helping refugees is the way to go in terms of support?
belarus expected to join the russian invasion of Ukraine in the next 1-2 days. With even worse corruption, training, and morale than putrids forces, as well as even older equipment I'd fully expect to see significantly higher belarusian casulaties compared to russian casualties and/or an uprising in belarus. It was not so long ago that lukashenka ran to moscow for help against protestors. Already belarusian railway workers have sabotaged their own countries rail network so as to hamper russian forces getting to Ukraine. russian forces are primarily supplied by rail, so they are quite limited in where they can go, what they can do at certain distances from rail heads.
Their was some tank division that entered kyiv that seemingly were all destroyed in the last couple of days.
It was a big number of tanks I believe.
That'd collaborate with the above if Russia is calling on for more help from Belarus.
More drone technology being used too from the simple improvised to the Turkish special made.
russians latest work of genius is they're digging in their artillery pieces to fixed positions. Think about that for a second in terms of the world of drones and satellites.
The belarusian angle could be to push south further in Ukraines West, or to go to Kyiv, either way they're going to die in their thousands if they do.
What could possibly go wrong.
https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1505572083438432259?s=20&t=h3_alDM-Fyuzc-6cYkAsbg
It's reported this evening Putin is looking for Libyan mercenaries from the government / leader out there as well.
With Belarus and the Libyan angle now it's looking like putin is just wanting non Russians to die in ukraine instead of their own lads. Their must be something finally sinking into the conscience of the Russian public and mothers now.
US figures have over 7000 Russian soldiers killed as a conservative figure. Ukrainian figures up to 14,000.
Russians official have barely to 500 soldiers killed.
(Apologies to anyone on the matter of fact way I post). Especially on the subject.
Demographics. The ethnic russian population is old and falling, and others (Central Asians, Chinese) are growing inside of russia. A lot of the Syria/Libya stuff is just nonsense, they'll get a few but sfa compared to the thousands mentioned, even Hezbollah said publicly they won't be sending anyone to fight in Ukraine.
I'm quite leery of these opinion polls being conducted in either a country with a hot war ongoing, or an authoritarian state, but the ones out of russia are saying things like 86% support for a russian attack on EU, and that specifically Poland should be "next". Hitlers mythical divisions in the last days of the war come to mind. In short I'm not sure of the existence of a russian conscience anymore, or enough of a one.
I figure the Ukrainian #'s likely closer than the US. The russians seem to be clueless in many areas, save for killing civilians. As one Tweet put it, it's neck and neck between the worst performing russian outfit, army, navy, or airforce. Special operations deserve special rewards, and getting 5-6 generals killed in less than a month has to be pretty special.
Solidarity
https://twitter.com/JJansaSDS/status/1505616969382473731?s=20&t=h3_alDM-Fyuzc-6cYkAsbg
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