• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    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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      4 days ago

      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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      4 days ago

      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