Russia knows Biden won’t do anything but posture and talk. That’s the same reason China will invade Taiwan before 2024. Weakness has consequences.
Why in the world is the Ukraine a “vital national security interest”?
There are some fairly rich countries in that neighborhood that have far more of an interest than the US. Lets see them step up first.
That’s the same reason China will invade Taiwan before 2024
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Not if millions of Chinese families have anything to say about it. Which they do. Invade anywhere = instant revolt and the end of the CCP.
For those that will yell : there is no social safety net in China ; dead sons = destitute families when their only source of income dies.
Yep, we did nothing about Crimea and Biden was around for that. There’s also no way we get into a shooting war with China over Taiwan. I’m surprised they’ve waited this long.
I know that people like to throw that around. But even with China’s massive military advantage an invasion of Taiwan by no means has a certainty of success. China doesn’t even properly train for the beaches they will actually face, for starters. And the entire world will know when they are coming. It won’t be anything like Normandy.
China wants The West to give in without a fight. In any conventional scenario China’s Army and Navy would be seriously brutalized leaving the Nation open to attacks by India. Never forget India when considering China. The quality of Chinese troops has been very clearly pointed out during the recent border skirmishes.
Exactly.
Putin is a tin-pot dictator wannabe (like so many others) and is allowing Russia’s mask to slip showint it’s truly ugly face.
Russia has always been an aggressively expansionist totalitarian state, gobbling up still more territory which it does not need (it can’t populate the territory it already has).
Little Ukraine is SUCH a “threat” to huge Russia just like Poland was to Germany in 1939.
I’m not sure what can be done, but I do think both Russia and China need to be diplomatically isolated and removed from the modern world’s institutions and norms. I don’t think it’s good if everyone just stands by and allows countries and peoples to be gobbled up willy-nilly. Just like excusing Antifa and BLM, it will enable all the “bullies” of the world to start running roughshod over anybody, anywhere.