• neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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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.
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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

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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’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.

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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.

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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.