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Honestly, those are some big demands you've got. Do you have any leverage? Many people wanted Russia to stop pestering their neighbors and the world. Many peo

• toss1 5y ago
  >>those are some big demands you've got. They aren't demands, but suggestions if the CCP wants to be viewed positively. But yes, for an expansionist authoritarian regime, stopping being so expansionist and dialing back the authoritarianism might be seen as big demands >>Do you have any leverage? Many people wanted Russia to stop pestering their neighbors and the world. Personally, none but the ability to speak out. At the business and government level, plenty. Especially about the Russia regime, they are a classic authoritarian state, who pushes until they get pushback. The problem is that western countries always want "good relations" so they let a lot of things slide in the interest of "good relations", so the authoritarian goes further. Pretty soon, the authoritarian is using chemical weapons to murder people on your soil in broad daylight, or putting armies on the soil of neighboring countries to annex them and shooting down commercial airliners, while you are basically waving a finger back at them. Pushback hard and early, and it seems excessive and "bad relations" politically, but if it goes on for too long, and the choice becomes capitulation to the authoritarians or a big war. So yes, individually, we are unimportant, but we must do what we can to promote self-determination and hope we can convince our governments to follow through.