The amount of absolutely braindead takes in this thread makes you realize how much of a hegemon US truly is. You could be living in fucking Ust'-Rasputinovsk on Lenin street and still have vague understanding of who are the americans, existence of multiple US states, what is BLM, etc, while typical amerimutt will have no idea if Ukrainians are orthodox or not. "Ukrainian is more likely to understand Hungarian than Russian", "Russian propaganda doesn't portray Ukraine as a failed state", "Putin thinks with Cold War mentality", actually makes me MATI.
Kiwis talking about Ukraine being a shithole that no one needs are 100% correct, if one were to invade it they would have to fix up all the infrastructure just for the occupying forces, something no one wants to do. Invasion will never happen, best case happening scenario is Putin ordering missile attacks on NATO bases.
On the topic of who actually wants the war to happen to unite the country over a single issue, you could check the approval ratings of Russia's
Putin and Ukraine's
Zelensky. For Zelensky actively provoking Russia into a war is the best bet at appeasing nationalists and not getting ousted just like his predecessors.
Russia-China relations are complicated, "alliance" is very much conditional and relies on Russians supplying resources and not deviating much from Chinese geopolitically. Long-term as China integrates into globohomo and/or pressures Russia to take a stance on India or some other Russian economical partner it will either lead to another Sino-Russian split or Chinese annexation of Russia.
Russia still (mistakenly) sees future as multipolar, while China sees it as sinocentric. It is NATO members who by thinking with "Cold War mentality" continue to push Russia into Chinese arms, losing themselves an economic (as is the case with Germany) and strategic ally.
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