mrbb wrote: the west is delusional to think their sanction gonna crush russia. These sanction only gonna hurt the west themselves way more. The SWIFT isn't `100% closed to russia, i heard 1 or 2 bank are allowed to do transaction with russia. The west hit russia with pull out of macdonald, apple, PepsiCo, CocaCola, Starbuck, Adidias, netflix, Lego, Disney, facebook, twitter, Chanel, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Hermes. Wow, that's gonna hurt the russians, China would be happy to fill in that void. Meanwhile, the west will face shortage and inflation of real stuffs, like wheat, corn, oil, gas, fertilizer, copper, aluminium, nickel, platinum, palladium. China is ready to buy them on the cheap, strengthening china's economy. Putin had prepared this scenario for the past 15 years. I doubt he would give it up that easily.
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China knows if russia fall, china is a sitting duck.
The western media painted Putin as a crazy man. Approximately 69% of Russians now approve of Putin. That's way more than biden or justin trudeau in their respective country.
liljohnnyjoke wrote: China and Russia forged new economic ties just before the invasion, guess the timing was just coincidence?
China supports the invasion.
China and the rest of Asia will take all oil the west doesn't want.
So all the western sanctions do is drive the oil price up and ensure that Russia gets Way more $$$ per barrel than it did a month ago.