

press embargo was likely for optics, russian allies participating puts pressure on ukrainian allies to do likewise. too far up the escalation ladder for comfort for most
press embargo was likely for optics, russian allies participating puts pressure on ukrainian allies to do likewise. too far up the escalation ladder for comfort for most
they wouldnt gain anything, they would be handing the us a golden opportunity to generate instability in the region and thus divert large capital flows away from northeast asia and back towards the us. the point is to slowly and painlessly strangle the us influence out of asia while the us is bogged down in the middle east again.
you see the beginnings of this with yoons ousting and japanese waffling on anti chinese aggression while simultaneously trying their hardest to keep the ukraine conflict alive so that the americans have things to worry about other than igniting ukraine 2.0 in westpac.
chinese opinion-havers are floating the idea that the phillipines will be the one to be made an example of, reason being that taiwan is comically overmatched and that offing another vassal will send the same message of american impotence to sk/jp/tw while not actually destroying territory you intend to take. also because the pinoys are the least economically relevant entity in the region.
saudis should have very publicly insisted that the us use them as a launchpad for a land invasion of yemen, would have been much more fun to watch the regime wriggle out of that than whatever this is