I honestly doubt that russia would be trusted to supply anything for the chinese military outside of raw materials.
Also, whats a high altitude parachute? is it just one that deploys higher up? Wouldint that make the troops and stuff easier to hit?
On top of that, if russia had all this…why couldnt they take Kyiv?
After watching Is Russia Already at War With NATO? I think it is more likely that trump is trying to goad NATO into responding more seriously to russia, and then once they do trump can condem the action and support russia against NATO.
Now russia can pull out of Ukraine without admitting defeat
Thank you for pointing-out that he could be doing that particular machiavellianism: I’d not thought of any such game.
I’ve been telling people for years that Trump’s going to ditch NATO & back his original backer, Putin, against NATO.
https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-introduces-withdrawal-from-nato
& “The Kremlin Papers” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin_papers show who’s investment Trump is ( apparently The Guardian has now disappeared all such content? from DuckDuckGo, it has, anyways… how spectacularly depressing to see propagandism go THAT deep, eradicating journalism even-more, since Guardian changed ownership ).
He’s playing a negative-sum game, same as Putin, same as mass-shooters: the intent is that NOone matter, after he’s gone: he gets to be “the last word”, & gets to be the “king” which presides over the destruction of the world’s potential.
Zero-sum games are competitive-narcissism, but negative-sum games are competitive-nihilism-and-narcissism… different motivation entirely.
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If I were Xi I’d wait a little longer, let’s say some months, to see if the US starts a civil war. Then, without the US to back Taiwan, start talking with Taiwan to unify both parts of China with an agreement. No war, no deaths, no spending military equipment.
a civil war
If sending strongly worded letters and spewing out-of-touch comments while the other side cripples any form of opposition is considered belligerency then sure.
I didn’t say Democrats will start the war.
Trump isnt going to back taiwan, especially if russia is involved.
TSMC (a company that makes computer chips and the T stands for Taiwan) is still one of the most strategically important companies to the US. I doubt any of the oligarchs will want to see it go without a fight.
It isn’t the oligarch’s call: it is Trump’s call, alone.
Taiwan’s fucked, by him: it’s only a matter of time before he stabs them in the back, now.
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Ill just sit back first and hold my horses. I doubt China would piss in the hornets nest just yet.
I think it would first try to find a way to migitate risk of economic collapse.
Besides. Taiwan is an open supporter of israel. Which now that I say it out loud sounds exactly lile the “Iran threats” said as the reason both Israel and the US bombed Iran.
Besides. Taiwan is an open supporter of israel. Which now that I say it out loud sounds exactly lile the “Iran threats” said as the reason both Israel and the US bombed Iran.
Without having looked into it, I’m pretty sure Taiwan supports whomever the US supports.
Pretty sure China is happy with the current arrangement and doesn’t actually want to rock the boat that hard. The current arrangement does rely on constant pressure and the ability to take Taiwan at a moments notice though, should the situation change. So yeah this checks out to me.
