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Why is Ukraine accepting ceding some of its territory, an ideal US outcome?
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Chinese expansion toward Europe.
China couldn't give two fucks about expanding into Europe, they only want to extract resource into Chinese territory. In the same way that US expansion is about freeing up trade to expand corporate interest the Chinese what to maximise relationships in their favour to improve their own interest.
They don't want territory in the same way as Russia or any traditional empire.
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Always worth a quick look on a map in these times.
It's a different picture if you consider that most of it is empty.
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^ this.
Always worth a quick look on a map in these times.
If Putin is replaced what next? Peace and democracy, or a potential civil war as regions try and break away? What is the knock-on effect for all those supper stable surrounding regions?
Ideal US outcome is Putin stays, Russia withdraws, Ukraine accepts current annexation in some sort of DMZ compromise and Russia is brought back into the world economy. Not the total implosion Russia and all the surrounding regions followed up with a Chinese expansion toward Europe.