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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by kryptiskt on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:10PM (#30533921)
Russia is very much the junior partner in the relationship with China, and now that they have burned their bridges to the West they lack any leverage against China. They are going to have to defer a lot more going forwards.
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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by newuser94303 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:56PM (#30534560)
Russia may become like a bigger North Korea. North Korea doesn't listen to China but it doesn't go out of it's way to piss China off. China props it up because it doesn't want a bigger humanitarian crisis on it's borders.

China will probably prop Russia up 1) It will get Oil and Gas cheaper 2) A mean Russia keeps the West from picking on China. 3) Russia has a lot of nukes and making it crazy helps nobody.

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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by celticninja on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:27PM (#30534140)
Yup, as sole buyer China are going to set the price of Russia's oil and gas.
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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by lupire on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:03AM (#30556553)
Does China have other sellers?
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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:40PM (#30534356)
"Russia is very much the junior partner in the relationship with China"

Exactly, Putin is not the grand strategist the world thinks he is

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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by jonnycomputer on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:56PM (#30534564)
Anyone that can make Switzerland and Sweden take sides against you isn't a grand strategist.
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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by ncmncm on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:59PM (#30534606)
Putin just was, and remains, in a desperate place. Strategy is fine at leisure. He had no choice but to do something to seem strong, to remain in power. If this doesn't work, he may move on to something desperate.
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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by seniorivn on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:43PM (#30536049)
that's not true at all, he doesn't need anything to remain in power, but if he wanted to get more popular among general population he could provided economic growth
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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by ncmncm on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @10:13PM (#30536695)
Evidently he is not, then, interested in getting more popular, because the invasion is an economic disaster. But he doesn't get his power from popularity. He gets it by being the baddest ass on the totem pole.

Chances are the invasion on the northern and eastern fronts are more or less feints, and only the southern front actually matters to him, as it gets him full control of the Black Sea shore and the oil fields. He needs the Ukrainian forces fully occupied elsewhere, and doesn't much care what happens there as long as it absorbs enough of their attention.

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