Putting aside for a minute whether Xi will say yes…it’s an amazing admission that the Russians are in dire straits.
Less than three weeks into the invasion and they are running out of equipment.
Unbelievable.
China needs to maintain healthy trade relations with the West. China will figure out whatever play best suits their economic interests, and work backwards to achieve it.
China stands to gain much more by brokering an exit ramp for Putin vs supplying Putin with weapons and equipment.
Hope Xi makes the right call.
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And just a reminder - Trump wanted to break up NATO.
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Perhaps he is asking for economic assistance, and using the "military assistance" to get the West worried???
This was a US released fact, correct? Russia didn't ask for this in public, did it? This is declassified info?
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This operation was planned for months - at least - and the buildup had been going on since October.
Less than three weeks in…and they appear to be out of gas, and I read a report suggesting they will be out of cruise missiles this week.
Could this be the reason why he raised the anti with the nuclear threat?
He knew if the Ukrainians were successful in prolonging his invasion he could claim it's because of NATO and the US therefore
giving him grounds for use of his nuclear arsenal? Couldn't be, could it?
Something doesn't make sense in his request to China. What's the game?
It is part of Russian doctrine. Which is why many are afraid that WMD might emerge.
As to why they were so amazingly unprepared…it’s amazing. No one knows. It could be that few in the military really believed that they were actually going to be ordered to do this.
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new Chechnya. I said he was going to burn Ukraine cities to the ground if he could.
I also said, it's likely he won't stop there. The Baltics are next.
I was surprised he raised the level of nuclear alert so quickly.
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If China enters the fray, where does that place the US?
All new territory.
This is frightening.