• DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    China might actually win this border war for once. One of Russia’s only W streaks was the Sino-Soviet/Russian border wars.

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      yeah china didn’t do too great against vietnam iirc… but as we see with ukraine, by themselves the russians ain’t even the strongest army in russia.

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    I would just laugh.

    Sure, it would be criminal and shit, but when has russia last cared about any of that UN funnyspeak?

    Bon apetit, China.

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    1. I’m sure I remember seeing NCD suggest this as the ultimate funny thing for China, a year ago. Glad to see Chinese social media likes our ideas.
    2. I hope it spreads to the point where tankies bend over backwards to defend this as not expansions at all, while somehow being on the side of both russia and China somehow.
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      Calling it now: Russia has Siberia for 400 years and did dick with it. China can use Siberian resources better than Russia.

      It will always be about exploitation.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldOP
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        and space. russia has struggled to build any population of note out east, whereas China has people ready to go and a few decades of belt-and-road construction as prep.

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            iirc demographically, even after the one child policy and preference for boys for generations, the demographic split only went to 112 (male) to 100 women… which isn’t great no doubt but hardly a good reason to go north.

            the potential resource bounty and space on the other hand… no need to frame the issue as rapey

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              This is a humorous shitposting community of degenerates, deplorables and malcontents, don’t tell me what to do. By the old gods and the new, I swear that no nubile virgins were involved in the making of this thread. Probably. Incels are just as welcome here as anyone else. You don’t even need pants in this club, but you do need a sense of the ridiculous.

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      Considering point 2; Plesse keep it to a non credible niveau when posting in this community

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    If they wait 50 years they can annex it through a personal union, though it will lead to a temporary happiness drop with their other vassals

    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Putin and Xi will have to have a cute little wedding first 🥰

      If Xi gets his diplo rep nice and high it might be quicker to just inherit Russia on his death though

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    Come on dog. Only a cowardly Winnie the Pooh looking dipshit would be afraid of going after Russia when they are weak.

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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    I’m not sure how I feel about this, because fuck Russia, but not fuck the Russians. Turnabout is always fair play, but where along Russia’s borders would we want another front? I am not well enough versed in Asian geopolitics.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yeah, fuck the Russian government for what they’ve done, but I still would have a very hard time supporting two giant forces built of working class no say people and slaughtered on both sides. The Chinese people don’t deserve it, neither do the Russians. propaganda clearly works around the globe. We know Russians believe different propaganda than China, U.S., Germany, Hungary, Turkey, UK… etc.

      All of it is different. But supporting any government attacking another right now only kills the people, not those creating the propaganda and spreading it.

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      Korea and maybe very specific slivers of the Kazakh border are the only other places along the Russian border where there’s really even any sizable population on either side. in all other places its just people fighting with the trees and general mud / general frost.

      If you draw a line from the Caspian sea to Vladivostok, which would basically be the contact line between a Russo-Chinese conflict. the only places immediately in range a for either side that have a lot of people are parts of northeastern China, the city of Vladivostok the Korean Peninsula, and Uzbekistan. everywhere else both sides would logistically starve themselves. cause its just miles of nothing

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    I thought that was obviously the plan all along… Pour at least make Russia, China’s Bitch.

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    I honestly thought about this scenario couple of years back when reading about Russia and Canada possibly benefiting from climate change as their northern areas thaw and become forests and farmlands.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldOP
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      it’s been on mind for a while.

      China can fight every other country in the pacific over an insignificant speck of island, or, they could actually grow their boundaries in a way that offers northwest passage access.

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      That is not a fast process. Plus solar insolation won’t change. It won’t make up for the losses in the USA.

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    China has publicly included the loss of Manchuria to Russia in like 1905~ to be part of it’s great century of shame and that China considers it part of Greater China.

    Expanding North beyond that into Siberia would open up the arctic ocean to them, which if nobody does anything, will only get more valuable as we heat up

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Lol please do it, it’d be funny.

    I mean, Russia is being worse to LGBT people compared to China’s treatment of LGBT people, so I guess its a slight improvement?

    But then, the firewall is much superior to russia’s, so its gonna get harder to bypass censorship.

    But good news, they gets free re-education to learn Social Harmony, and love peace, and love Xinnie the Pooh!

    Also, no more pronoun issues. Pronouns are always 他/他 (pronounced tā), gendered pronouns are a thing of the past. (Chinese language does not really use gendered pronouns)

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      (Chinese language does not really use gendered pronouns)

      他(male) and 她(female), no?

      And also 它 for animal/object

      Or at least that’s what i learn when i’m in school, not sure if anything change.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        If you write 他 to refer to a woman on a test essay, you’d still get marked correct.

        Writing 她 to refer to a man would be incorrect.

        Basically

        他 = He OR She

        她 = She

        它 = It (refer to objects and non-human animals)

        他 is what gets used all the time to refer to both genders. 她 is rarely used, unless maybe in an English class to teach the difference between the English pronouns He and She.

        Also, they are all pronounced the same: (tā)

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        You are correct. 他 for he, and 她 for she. However since they all sound the same, they’re only distinguished in writing.

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          It’s not that they sound the same; they are the same and are just written differently. It was all 他 until in the 20th (I think) century they created 她 and 它 and made 他 for males only to make the language more European.

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      No idea why it boils down to treatment of LGBT, as if that is the only group that is consistently fucked with.

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      They might not use genered pronouns, but they do a lot of referring to people as uncle/auntie/big sister/little brother and the like.

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    What I’d love to see is all the nations who’ve had territory seized by Russia over the last century or so take it back, all at once.

    Japan, Finland, Georgia and whoever I’ve missed all say “OK, Now!”, and China gets in on the action just for fun.

    Russia would be so incredibly pissed off.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldOP
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      Yes, this would be the ideal - then Poland and Lithuania can share Kaliningrad.

      A free Crimea… Transnistria free of putin’s bullshit…

      Vladivostok returned to Yongmingcheng …

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          At the moment it belongs to the russians but if Germany can make a good argument and pay off the neighbors, sure why not

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            I had heard that the german constitution bans annexations, but have looked it up and found nothing. Did I just make it up?

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            The russians wiped it clean after the second world war, so there’s not really anything left Form the times as Königsberg.

            Seeing how much struggle it was to reintegrate the former GDR, I say ‘No, thank you’

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            Sorry, it used to be called Konigsberg under Germany, but i think Russia took it under control following world war 2.

            • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldOP
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              I just wonder how long the country russia expects to own some random chunk of the baltic coast that they’re not connected to ethnically, historically or geographically lol…

              I feel the same way about diego garcia / uk / us.

                • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldOP
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                  Who was living in the Chagos Islands prior to European arrival?

                  literally searched your query into duckduckgo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago

                  The Chagos Islands had been home to the Chagossians, a Bourbonnais Creole-speaking people, until the United Kingdom expelled them from the archipelago at the request of the United States between 1967 and 1973 to allow the United States to build Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, a military base on Diego Garcia, on land leased from the UK military in the British Indian Ocean Territories. Since 1971, only the atoll of Diego Garcia has been inhabited, and only by employees of the US military, including American civilian contracted personnel. Since being expelled, Chagossians, like all others not permitted by the UK or US governments, have been prevented from entering the islands.