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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by jandrese on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:22PM (#30459004)
This is where diplomacy should shine. It's clear that Russia has been hardening against western sanctions for years now, and CIPS is a big piece of that. If NATO can convince China to also shut them out of CIPS at the same time we turn off SWIFT the Russian Oligarchs will start applying pressure to Putin.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by GrayShade on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:31PM (#30459125)
They won't. They want Russian support when they invade Taiwan.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by newuser94303 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:07PM (#30459580)
They don't need Russian support to attack Taiwan and Russian economic support is meaningless. They won't do it because there is no incentive to. The US has to bribe them. Think of China like an evil corporation. They won't do anything except for their own best interests. Like Facebook with nukes.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by stevehawk on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:25PM (#30461750)
Russian support won't come in the form of money or weapons. It'll come in the form of shutting off gas lines to the EU or invading the next set of non NATO countries in the EU, forcing the major military powers of the EU and NA to decide between protecting Europe or protecting Taiwan.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by loufe on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:22PM (#30461128)
I don't think adding the tag of "evil" in front of corporation is necessary or helpful. Corporations are selfish and aggressive enough already. Nothing about China's geopolitical plotting is anymore evil than the US or Russia, regardless of what ideological non-sense you use to justify any corner.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:07PM (#30459591)
China can't invade Taiwan without Taiwan blowing up the Three Gorges Dam and wiping out 1/4th of China's population
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by AnimalMuppet on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:35PM (#30459198)
I doubt that's going to happen. China has refused to even call this an invasion, and has said that it's the West's fault.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by nojs on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:56PM (#30459438)
Source?
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by foxfluff on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:12PM (#30459645)
All over the news if you do a search. First hits:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-rejects-calling-ru...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/china-refuses-to-call-attack...

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by AnimalMuppet on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:37PM (#30459954)
Thanks.

In fairness to nojs, I tried to search for it to back up my claim, and couldn't find it again.

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by maccolgan on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:01PM (#30462510)
Why would China shut off Russia when it also faces the same adversaries from across the ocean? This is their moment prove CIPS.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by jandrese on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:24AM (#30468210)
You need to finish that sentence: "...prove CIPS enables imperialist expansion."
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by maccolgan on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:41PM (#30473260)
Yeah imperialism sure sounds like weaponizing international systems nominally neutral.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by sbmthakur on Thursday February 24, 2022 @04:00PM (#30460207)
You need to convince Europeans before China.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/24/kyiv-furious-a...

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by Andrew_nenakhov on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:51PM (#30459377)
Russian oligarchs will not apply pressure to Putin. They are all accomplices now.

All this politics theater of the past few days was to make everyone of notice show support for invasion, in public form. Lawmakers, Security council, oligarchs, senators, everyone. So they would know they won't be able to betray him and escape. They are all forced to make their bones.

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