JWBooth
Diamond Member
Biden will do the right thing - nearly nothing, due to bumbling incompetence rather than through rational and reasoned thought.
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Russia shares a long, contested border with China. China is an immediate threat to Russia. If we don’t push Russia around, if we don’t call for Ukraine entry into NATO, we can achieve Russian neutrality in a Sino-American conflict.Russia already made their "wrong" choice, duh.
I think India is on our side.
Who is we? The USA certainly doesn’t. The Taiwanese most certainly don’t. The only country that claims Taiwan to be part of the PRC IS the PRC.Different issues. We recognize China's ultimate sovereignty over Taiwan, we don't recognize Russia's over Ukraine but our reaction would be similar. Economic and diplomatic sanctions by the West and our Asian allies. Military aid might go to Ukraine but not Taiwan.
Maybe you missed this earlier link? China and Russia are allies. Putin and Xi are BFFs. We do want Ukraine in NATO to keep Putin in his box well away from the EU. We also want to keep the real threat of international banking isolation front and center in case Russia or China invades a neighbor.Russia shares a long, contested border with China. China is an immediate threat to Russia. If we don’t push Russia around, if we don’t call for Ukraine entry into NATO, we can achieve Russian neutrality in a Sino-American conflict.
You are misinformed:Who is we? The USA certainly doesn’t. The Taiwanese most certainly don’t. The only country that claims Taiwan to be part of the PRC IS the PRC.
Russia’s participation in a war games simulation does not mean she will join China in a war against the US.Iran, China & Russia to conduct joint war games in 'message to the world'
Iran, Russia, and China are joining together in a war games simulation as a "message to the world," Iranian navy commander Rear Adm. Hossein Khanzadi saidamericanmilitarynews.com
Link please that shows Putin would align with NATO against China.Russia’s participation in a war games simulation does not mean she will join China in a war against the US.
The US can live with a neutral, unaligned Ukraine.
Hard to say. Russia and China are really pushing that line.So you believe that Biden and NATO will do nothing if/when Russia invades Ukraine and China invades Taiwan?
That was fifty years ago. No president since then has treated Taiwan as anything except an independent country. The Taiwan Relations Act treats Taiwan as a sovereign country and we have trade agreements and have treated Taiwan as a sovereign country in every way. Nixon and Carter were the only presidents that favored the PRC over Taiwan. Nixon's reason was to drive a wedge between the USSR and PRC. Carter was just being a idealistic fool as usual.You are misinformed:
Declassified transcripts of Nixon’s conversations with Zhou Enlai make it clear Nixon told Zhou the United States recognizes Taiwan is a part of China.
He knows wars are very expensive, and when it gets unpopular he gets removed.Putin is a pussy who avoids fights with any nation that has a legit military.
Participation in a simulated war game is hardly a binding commitment.Link please that shows Putin would align with NATO against China.
Do you have any basis for that "wishful thinking"?
I showed you that they are already cooperating in military war games.
I'm not seeing any way Russia and the US get to be allies?! Not happening.
Thanks for the linked article.Participation in a simulated war game is hardly a binding commitment.
China is the big threat for both Russia and the USA.
An neutral Ukraine is acceptable to both Russia and the USA.
Are you an American patriot? Do you want the USA to win in our conflict with China?
It was an understandable reaction to burdensome and costly over regulation and tax policy.Wall Street fucked up royally moving so many factories to China and allowing them to steal so much intellectual property.
Russia and China are fundamentally at odds.Thanks for the linked article.
I'm not opposed to an alliance with Russia to oppose China, but I'm not aware of Russia and China having problems.
Your article puts up a few potential problem areas assuming that China wants to piss Russia off.
Yes and yes to your question, but romancing Russia in hopes of an alliance seems stupid to me.
I don't trust Putin any more than I trust Xi.
Wall Street fucked up royally moving so many factories to China and allowing them to steal so much intellectual property.
By 2030 China's economy will surpass the US economy.
What will the world look like by 2050?
On the news they said that Russia is scared shitless of our banking curbs. Apparently we can put a financial fence around Russia so no international money moves into or out of Russia. Putin's envoy said that would be an "act of war". Okay, so we have a real threat if Putin invades Ukraine.
Good to know financial pressure works even if diplomacy doesn't.