• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    12 days ago

    Could easily be the start of it. If the US civil wars with the orangutan and his ilk, and China starts to fuck with Russia because Xi recognises Putin as a paper tiger dumbass (though China’s army is also paper tigery, so…) or just escalates their fighting with India…

    Then… That’d be most of the world involved in war.

    • Corn@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      12 days ago

      China has absolutely no reason to invade the pile of self-extracting resources that currently can only sell to them.

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        11 days ago

        I imagine Xi would if he thought he could take over Russia. It should be obvious China does not respect other nations’ boundaries or sovreignty. If Russia shows it’s that much weaker than China after the Ukraine BS, I would not put it past Xi.

        • Corn@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          11 days ago

          Even if they could, they wouldn’t get the resources as cheaply as theyre getting them now. Also China has recall elections, if Xi went mad and unilaterally decided to go to war with a country so important to Chinas economy, he’d be booted so fast.

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            9 days ago

            Ehhhh, you’re only describing the other side of the calculation that we both know Xi is making. The moment that calculation shows invading Russia/India would maybe work, he’d probably go for it.

            If the US removed itself from the global stage, I’d suspect Xi would focus more on the Pacific and Thaiwan, but if the calculations show he could own Russia/India too? Yeeaaaaa he’s not passing that up.

            Also, we all should know how China’s votes go after Hong Kong… China is a dictatorship that calls itself communist. Nothing more.