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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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[–] DependentFeature3028@lemmy.world -5 points 3 hours ago

This is extremely stupid. The standard of living collapsed after the fall of the ussr.

All that the west has done was to destabilize the eastern Europe and the middle east after that to project their power. If Putin wouldn't have come to power in the early 2000s Russia would probably be a vassal state of the west now and China would not be where it is today.

Now on the war part. Ua economy and army was completely replaced by the west. Ua actions make me believe that the west wants to collapse Russia. Instead they are the one being embarrassed. Russia not only did not lose but is still advancing in ua territory despite the 809bn from the west.

On top of that the economies are collapsing in the west. Many countries chose to ditch us bonds for Chinese ones after the sanctions applied to russia.

What is happening in Iran is proof that Europe does not afford to open another front

Enjoy the collapse of the western empire