[ansel12]

China taking land from Russia is a given and has been seen as inevitable for many years, and that inevitability is getting closer due to Putin’s gross incompetence and incredible misjudgments.

[NorseViking]

But it doesn’t taoe place. The only incompetence we see is that of the US foreign foreign policy, financial authorities, and even the military, where they are providing substandard training to the Ukrainians and also the best US special operators are getting routinely slaughtered by the Russian regulars they are trying to ambush. I even posted you videos of stupid engagements. It is even worse for the British. It is said that their special operators have run out of personnel, killed off by the Russian draftees everytime they met them. The amateurs need to stay in a sandbox and stop bothering big guys.

[Wallace T.]

Don't forget that the Central Asian republics, formerly part of the Soviet Union and before that, the Tsarist Empire, were at one time under Chinese rule or at least in the Chinese orbit as tributary states during the Middle Ages. I suspect that China may expand in that direction, possibly in tandem with a move in Eastern Siberia. The Russian military seems more incompetent than their Communist and Tsarist predecessors, based on their struggles to subdue Ukraine.