China considers participating in peacekeeping forces in Ukraine, media
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I'm not really surprised. They're the only nation really equipped to step into the power vacuum America is leaving behind and I'm sure it isn't lost in Xi the kind of stability and influence that gave America over the years.
The only question (and frankly the one they're asking here) is will what's left of the free world accept them even though they're not really a free nation.
The bigger question rather than letting them step into that spot is whether it means we'll let them take Taiwan and other contested islands in the Pacific without a struggle. I think they'll be allowed because there isn't another option while Republicans remain in power in the US.
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Maybe if the US is kicking Ukraine out of its sphere of influence, China thinks they can get it into theirs? I wonder how that'd effect their relationship with Russia, since they've been benefiting from cheap oil.
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Hey it's a nice century so far, I just hadn't been expecting it to be Chinese, that's all.
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Despite the obvious hypocrisy with Taiwan and Hong Kong, he does benefit from supporting Ukraine since it ensures further destabilization of Russia.
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The bigger question rather than letting them step into that spot is whether it means we'll let them take Taiwan and other contested islands in the Pacific without a struggle. I think they'll be allowed because there isn't another option while Republicans remain in power in the US.
I wouldn’t be surprised if everybody just “suddenly remembered” that we never recognized it as a separate country in the first place.
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Maybe if the US is kicking Ukraine out of its sphere of influence, China thinks they can get it into theirs? I wonder how that'd effect their relationship with Russia, since they've been benefiting from cheap oil.
What's Russia gonna do instead, sell it to the US? Oh... oh no....
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Hey it's a nice century so far, I just hadn't been expecting it to be Chinese, that's all.
You didn't?
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so this is how the russo-sino-yankee union begins.
Russio-Yankee vs Euro-Sino actually
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Doesn't sound like the purpose is to please Russia. Especially this part:
China is assessing the possibility of participating in peacekeeping forces in Ukraine, asking the EU whether its European partners support such an initiative.
Asking the EU if it would support them participating in a peacekeeping mission which Russia has been very critical of kinda seems more like they're trying to improve relations with Europe in the wake of strong anti-US sentiments.
Europe is sending a reassurance force. Europe will not accept the offer.
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Despite the obvious hypocrisy with Taiwan and Hong Kong, he does benefit from supporting Ukraine since it ensures further destabilization of Russia.
Remember the Musk briefing on Friday. The USA are preparing a war against China. China will do everything to stabilize Russia.
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Yes! This is amazing! The EU should consider china as its ally, the US has proven to be unreliable and untrustworthy. The people arguing that china is authoritarian and hence shouldn't be trusted should just look at the us which is currently run by nazis.
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Remember the Musk briefing on Friday. The USA are preparing a war against China. China will do everything to stabilize Russia.
Why would they wish to stabilize the current de facto US ally #1?
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Yes! This is amazing! The EU should consider china as its ally, the US has proven to be unreliable and untrustworthy. The people arguing that china is authoritarian and hence shouldn't be trusted should just look at the us which is currently run by nazis.
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Why would they wish to stabilize the current de facto US ally #1?
Because Putin doesn't have the influence that the media suggests. Trump doesn't bother to correct the left since it keeps them distracted from project 2025. Greenland and Canada wouldn't matter if Russia were an ally.
Instead the war is continuing as before which could lead to the end of the Russian regime. China must prefer NATO troops on the Dnieper over NATO troops on the Amur.
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donald trump has single handedly shifted the global hegemony away from the united states, in only a matter of weeks.
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North Korean
No, Chinese mercenaries it seems.
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China is not our allie. They are enemies of our values like freedom exactly as the Americans are.
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Because Putin doesn't have the influence that the media suggests. Trump doesn't bother to correct the left since it keeps them distracted from project 2025. Greenland and Canada wouldn't matter if Russia were an ally.
Instead the war is continuing as before which could lead to the end of the Russian regime. China must prefer NATO troops on the Dnieper over NATO troops on the Amur.
Greenland and Canada aren't about countering a Russian military threat. Both are NATO members with US bases in them. The Russian threat to the US was much larger during the cold war and yet the US didn't annex them back then. This is about force projection in the arctic. Control of both the NW passage and the Panama canal would increase US leverage on the world stage, including on their so-called allies. Local resources are most likely of interst as well. Even then, I suspect that a large portion is just rhetoric to stoke up visions of grandeur and might among his supporters, since that would track pretty closely with how fascist regiemes have operated in the past.
I admit that "current de facto US ally #1" might be a bit strongly put, but it's not like the bar would be too high at this point. They do get along well enough. Putin isn't dumb enough to antagonize the US president who is more useful than any of his predesecors in a long time.
A NATO occupation of Russia, be that through overt means or a friendly coup, would still be incredibly expensive and thus politically unpopular across the board. Also Trump is all about pretending to be the peacemaker when it comes to Ukraine and Russia, so this would never go forward barring a major restructuring of NATO where the US is booted out or at least knocked down a peg from their current hegemonic position. Both seem unlikely to say the least.
The way I see it, China is just trying to position itself as a force for reason and making the most out of recent US shortcomings in soft power projection by exercising its own to fill that vacum.
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Greenland and Canada aren't about countering a Russian military threat. Both are NATO members with US bases in them. The Russian threat to the US was much larger during the cold war and yet the US didn't annex them back then. This is about force projection in the arctic. Control of both the NW passage and the Panama canal would increase US leverage on the world stage, including on their so-called allies. Local resources are most likely of interst as well. Even then, I suspect that a large portion is just rhetoric to stoke up visions of grandeur and might among his supporters, since that would track pretty closely with how fascist regiemes have operated in the past.
I admit that "current de facto US ally #1" might be a bit strongly put, but it's not like the bar would be too high at this point. They do get along well enough. Putin isn't dumb enough to antagonize the US president who is more useful than any of his predesecors in a long time.
A NATO occupation of Russia, be that through overt means or a friendly coup, would still be incredibly expensive and thus politically unpopular across the board. Also Trump is all about pretending to be the peacemaker when it comes to Ukraine and Russia, so this would never go forward barring a major restructuring of NATO where the US is booted out or at least knocked down a peg from their current hegemonic position. Both seem unlikely to say the least.
The way I see it, China is just trying to position itself as a force for reason and making the most out of recent US shortcomings in soft power projection by exercising its own to fill that vacum.
so this would never go forward barring a major restructuring of NATO w
You believe that NATO without the USA would fight a war against Russia?
