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Russia MIC export is now going to decline rapidly, their Ukraine blunder is going to cost them dearly , if they have finished entire Ukraine like how USA destroyed Iraq within a month then atleast it should have sent chill down to USA and it's allies and fear can be used a good geopolitical tool to export more weapons , well cost consequences would be heavy sanction from west, geno***** dictator, and but it would have won support of Russian natiolist , weapon export could become more attractive.

But now , they're under sanction, war is taking too long time, already their weapons and become joke in social media & in MSM media, even though most of it would be CIA propaganda but everybody now understand that russia lacks some technology and even buying UAV from Iran for war , this exoposes weakness of Russian military and how few days ago Ukraine destroyed russian bomber by closely hitting inside very deep of Moscow.

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China should be a little worried because I think Vietnam would probably choose American weapon because they are shifting away from Russian weapons, that's why I always says that deep economic ties are not the best option to win a country, the best option is close military ties like USA has with it's NATO countries and various military bases which helps them to influence all of those countries.

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China should bring it's kind of Monroe doctrine so that superpower like America or other power can stay away from it's sphere of Influence /atleast in South East Asia and should start to pressurize USA military to vacate their military bases in japan, korea , south east asia after china takes control over taiwan island.
Vietnam would sooner just buy weapons from China. More likely than not they will try to make their own, with minor imported tech.

A more reliant Russia is really good for China. At the same time, a weaker nato is also really good. In that regards, the long war over Ukraine serves every geopolitical need.

I was concerned when Russia went out of Kherson but clearly some sort of breaking point has been reached where the number of losses and horrible winter conditions have finally caught up to Ukraine.
 

Sardaukar20

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3) Makes Taiwan eligible for a regional contingency stockpile program to ensure Taiwan has the supplies (both weapons and stuff like medicines and food) that it will need in a contingency BEFORE a crisis occurs.
That "regional contingency stockpile". While will it be stored? On Taiwan Island? Or outside?

If it's on Taiwan island, it's gonna be a nice big fat target for the PLARF to put some hypersonic ordinance on it.

If it's outside of Taiwan island. Then the China' A2AD power would severely degrade the supply lines.

In conclusion. That US stockpile assistance to Taiwan is just a pipedream. To keep the boba separatists dreams for independence alive. That last Taipei election must have hurt their confidence badly. Too bad! Boba dreams don't put food on the table.
 

Chish

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They wants to end monopoly of china in rare earth metals.
That means China will be forced to save those rare materials for their future needs instead of the present policy of processing and selling them at dirt cheap. The US and Australia have the world riches deposits but not mining and processing them as much due to pollutions, competitions from China and strategic saving for the future.
 

baykalov

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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has confirmed her government’s duplicity regarding the conflict in Ukraine by confirming that the 2014 ceasefire agreement was meant to give Kiev time to build up its military, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

In an interview with Zeit magazine published on Wednesday, Merkel said that the Minsk protocol brokered by Germany and France was “an attempt to give Ukraine time,” which it used to “become stronger” as evidenced on the battlefield now. She was referring to the first of the two documents known collectively as the “Minsk agreements” that were designed to help Kiev reconcile with rebels in the east, who had rejected the outcome of an armed coup in the capital in 2014.

Berlin and “by extension, the West” never intended to implement the Minsk agreements, Zakharova concluded based on Merkel’s remarks. The US and its allies “simulated supporting the UN Security Council resolution” which endorsed the roadmap to peace while pumping weapons into Ukraine and “ignored all crimes committed by the Kiev regime … for the sake of a decisive strike against Russia,” she explained in a social media post on Thursday.

In the Zeit interview, Merkel stated that Russia “could easily have overrun” Ukrainian troops in 2015, adding that she doubted that “NATO countries could have done as much then as they do now”. The second part of the Minsk agreements was signed in February 2015 amid a military defeat suffered by Ukrainian troops, which attempted to quash the Donbass militias.

Merkel’s description of the accords coincides with that made by former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, during whose tenure they were signed. Domestically, in August 2015, he stated that the peace deal was a ruse to give his government time for a military buildup. He said the same thing to Western audiences in June this year.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine in late February, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk protocols, under which the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk would have been given special status within the Ukrainian state. The Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states, which have since voted to join Russia alongside Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

Russia also demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

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BERLIN, December 7. /TASS/. The Minsk accords were signed in order to "give Ukraine time" to make the country stronger, ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel (in office from 2005 to 2021) said in an interview with the Zeit newspaper published on Wednesday.

"The 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give time to Ukraine. It also used this time to become stronger as can be seen today. The Ukraine of 2014-2015 is not the modern Ukraine," the politician said.

According to her, "it was clear to everyone" that the conflict had stalled and the problem had not been resolved "yet this was precisely what gave Ukraine invaluable time." She expressed doubt that at that time NATO states would have been able to support Kiev to the extent that they do now.

Merkel was the German chancellor when the 2014 state coup occurred in Ukraine and the Minsk agreements on settling the Donbass conflict were concluded with her participation.

On February 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that following the recognition of the DPR and LPR, the Minsk accords did not exist anymore yet this was not Russia’s fault. According to him, the agreements were killed by the current Kiev regime long before the recognition of the Donbass republics.


It appears that the people in the Kremlin were the only people in the world who truly believed that they had brokered some kind of peace that the other side had any intention to honor.

The Kremlin *extradited* Donbass rebels to Ukraine where they were murdered or thrown into SBU dungeons in order to protect the sacred "Minsk agreement" that wasn't honored by Kiev even for a day.

Kremlin pressured the Donbass Republics into not returning fire, Kremlin refused to supply the Donbass Republics enough weapons to build up a proper army, all for the sake of a scam treaty that was used by NATO exclusively to juice up the Ukrainian military in preparation for this war.

There is that argument: "but Russia would have collapsed under these sanctions back in 2014". One of those things we'll never find out. But sanctions are always subject to negotiation. But it would certainly be easier to negotiate about sanctions with tank crews relaxing at the Polish border than while assaulting enormous fortresses in Donbass.

Re: Mariupol, the city could have been taken without a fight in 2014, but Moscow threatened the rebels and stopped them from doing so after they had already reached the outskirts and all AFU forces had fled. Afterwards, Azov entered the city and massacred a bunch of civilians.

I can't understand the ongoing desire to 'make deals' with people who are agreement-incapable and conduct diplomacy in bad faith & OPENLY DECLARE that they are doing so. I can't vouch for how true this is, but I've been told that Putin was genuinely proud of the Minsk agreement.

Like, he genuinely considered himself a great diplomat who had managed to keep the peace, at the cost of 1000s of Russian lives. But it is like Churchill (supposedly) said: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”
 

ACuriousPLAFan

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Well, of course. The West is now building their own Iron Curtain just so that they could stick it up to China.

Especially now that your only precious industry is gradually getting hollowed out by your masters across the Pacific while your bootlicking 看门狗 in Taipei's Zhongzheng District did absolutely nothing to prevent that.

 
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BlackWindMnt

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Well, of course. The West is now building their own Iron Curtain just so that they could stick it up to China.

Especially now that your only precious industry is gradually getting hollowed out by your masters across the Pacific while your bootlicking 看门狗 in Taipei's Zhongzheng District did absolutely nothing to prevent that.

Western globalisation is dead, seems like Global south globalisation is going full steam ahead.
 
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