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China's armed forces secretly trained about 200 Russian military personnel in China late last year and some have since returned to fight in Ukraine, according to three European intelligence agencies and documents seen by Reuters.

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[–] Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Russia is the fat alcoholic abusive ex that doesn't want to see his ex girlfriend moving on with a decent fella.

The best outcome of this war and the one in Iran is that it shows us that the big imperial powers old school methods of power projection are losing relevance as a result of cheap drone warfare.

Russia absolutely could have ignored Ukraine leaving its sphere of influence, in fact they would be in a much better economic and demographic situation had they ignored it.

If it wasn't for the brave Ukrainians being killed by Russia this war would almost be comical given how terribly the Russian armed forces have performed. Failure after failure, I don't think Russia has much left in the tank. A smart ruler would give up now and consolidate but Putin's life is on the line here if he does not achieve some form of "victory". So Vladimir Put Put is going to drag the Russian nation down to hell with him while the Russian population of cucks cry "I am not political!"

Good riddance to bad orcs, back to the dirt you came from. Even sunflowers won't grow from your alcohol/krokodil ravaged corpses. I hope Putin dies screaming like the Russian soldiers in the lens of an FPV drone.