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[MikelBikel]

why do you think Russia is the only country wanting Crimea and Ukraine back?
Mongolia, Manchuria were Chinese territory until Japan occupied it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tibetan-issues-not-focus-repression-persists-exiled-former-leader-2024-01-13/

How is Tibet doing? Everything Rosy?

US imposes new China visa curbs over alleged ‘forced assimilation’ in Tibet

Experts have said about 1 million Tibetan children were being separated from their families at state boarding schools.

www.aljazeera.com

"Liberated" in 1950, should be smooth by now, yes?

Tibet: Mass Relocations of Tibetans Not Voluntary

Chinese government officials are systematically using extreme forms of pressure to coerce rural Tibetans to relocate their long-established villages. Officials have relocated or are currently relocating 500 villages with over 140,000 residents to new locations, often hundreds of kilometers away.

www.hrw.org

Sounds like a Land grab, yes or no?

 

[SHA222]

They wanted Crimea for three good reasons:

1) Historically it had always been Russian territory, occupied by the Russian Tartar people for hundreds of years. The USSR awarding it to the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic was a silly mistake, assuming the USSR would last for ever:

"On April 26, 1954 The decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet transfered the Crimea Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR."

2) It had long been the base of the Southern Russian fleet, vital since theirNorthern fleet regularly gets iced in,

3) The Ukrainians had no use for Crimea and still don't have. They rely on farming and mining, but Crimea is a riverless desert useless for agriculture, and with no mineral deposits. Their wanting Crimea now is classic "Dog in the Manger", "we've got no use for it but we'll make sure no-one else benefits."
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I know, but as I explained, Putin has no problem with them slowly becoming de facto Chinese again. The joint plan he and Jingpin have is very long term, reaching far beyond their own lifetimes. The only way that can change is if Putin is planning to double cross Jingpin, but I doubt he'd be that big a fool to try.
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I thought Crimea was a gift to Ukraine by Kruchev during one of his lighter moods. The Ukrainians mostly used it as a holiday resort during the soviet times.
Therefore the re-possession of Crimea in 2014 did not surprise me so much. However the invasion of the rest of Ukraine was wrong and there can be no justification for that.
I sincerely hope that our current leaders in both sides would tread carefully and make sound decisions to stop this war which is not going to lead anywhere but massive losses and human suffering on both sides as well as the rest of the world.

 

[MikelBikel]

"China claims sovereignty over nearly all of the South China Sea, via a vague, U-shaped nine-dash-line that overlaps with the EEZs of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/11/whats-behind-escalating-china-philippines-tensions-in-the-south-china-seaVietnam." Wayhay, jackpot, brave to go against the vietnamese!

South China Sea hot enough to bubble over in 2024 - Asia Times

MANILA - South China Sea disputes pitting China against Southeast Asian claimants are fast shaping to become the region's major flashpoint of 2024. In its

asiatimes.com

Too hot for trouble, just chill bro?

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-china-sea-why-are-china-philippines-tensions-heating-up-2024-04-11/

Oh no, someone's accusing misinformation, troublesome?
https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2024/10/diplomatic-decoupling-in-the-south-china-sea/
Militarily occupying seven islands while ramming Pinoy coastguard vessels is not cool Han?

 

[Woosh]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tibetan-issues-not-focus-repression-persists-exiled-former-leader-2024-01-13/

How is Tibet doing? Everything Rosy?

US imposes new China visa curbs over alleged ‘forced assimilation’ in Tibet

Experts have said about 1 million Tibetan children were being separated from their families at state boarding schools.

www.aljazeera.com

Sounds like a Land grab, yes or no?

Tibet is not a country. It is an autonomous region of China, a bit like Northern Ireland.
There are lots of autonomous regions in China. It's not a case of land grab but the tibetans are forced to learn to read and write Chinese among other things.

 

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[MikelBikel]

 

[MikelBikel]

Oh man, stop it, eh?
Not Evergreen again, like the Suez?

 

[AndyBike]

Neil Oliver and vids from GB news(Gaslighting Britons) Dear dear

 

[Woosh]

What do you think of Dutch Health Minister Fleur Agema admitting that Covid was a “military operation” and revealed that her nation was t...

Answer (1 of 4): Your question is exactly a textbook example of Russian disinformation tactics: plant a loaded question, sprinkle in some official-sounding terms like "NATO orders," and hope it catches fire in the conspiracy circles. Let me save you the suspense: no, Dutch politician Fleur Agema...

www.quora.com

That's MSN for you.

 

[flecc]

He put more than 100,000 troops at the border and we were still debating will he, won't he.

I wasn't ! !

Remember I posted two days before the war started** what his real objective was, complete with photos of the southern area he would aim for, not Kiev. That attack in the north from Belarus was a dummy, pleased to take Kiev if at all possible but not bothered if not since he already had Crimea loaded for the attack from the south for his real objective, taking the whole of the Azov and Black Sea coast to cripple Ukraine economically.

** Note the date of the link below, two days before the invasion towards Kiev began:

Brexit, for once some facts.

Is Putin expecting one of his security council to be wearing an IED? The Russians can make impressive looking buildings: I recall passing through Moscow Airport in 1984, with it's astonishing ceiling covered in varying lengths and widths of very large and wide gold cylinders on end, way up...

www.pedelecs.co.uk

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[MikelBikel]

Oh man, no good sailors?

 

[MikelBikel]

Careful where Yu drop that anchor, oops!?

 

[MikelBikel]

Now Sweden joined Denmark investigating Yu!?

 

[MikelBikel]

Someone's got sticky fingers? War graves are out of bounds!

 

[MikelBikel]

Three Strikes, you're out!

 

[MikelBikel]

Naughty, naughty, what's the penalty for espionage?