| brother paul |
13 januari 2025 18:16 |
Wanneer peuzelt China stukje van Rusland
Dat is de vraag van dit artikel, ik vind het een debat waard
https://kyivindependent.com/the-ques...ssia-but-when/
The question is not whether China will turn on Russia, but when. China will eventually eat Russia’s lunch; the only remaining uncertainty is how big the meal will be. Russia has expended much of its Cold War arsenal on Ukraine, leaving Siberia wide open to Chinese ambitions. Siberia has the resources that China covets: not only energy and minerals, but, more importantly, water. Lake Baikal is larger than Belgium and contains 20% of the world’s fresh surface water, which North China desperately needs.
If Putin used nuclear weapons, which he has periodically threatened to do, Russians would become the pariahs of the 21st century, replacing the Nazis of the last century. Like the Germans before them, Russians also support wars of territorial conquest. After the Soviet Union’s export of its economic model impoverished so much of the world (itself included), nuking a neighbor would cement Russia’s status as the world’s most regressive country, and its people as the world’s most brutal. The negative strategic effects for Russia and Russians would last for generations — just ask the Germans. |
