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Autocrats just kill their enemies. MBS in Saudi Arabia locked a bunch of wealthy people in a hotel and tortured them because they were fucking around with Aramc

Autocrats just kill their enemies. MBS in Saudi Arabia locked a bunch of wealthy people in a hotel and tortured them because they were fucking around with Aramco. In reality, Putin is not doing enough compared to his counterparts in China and SA, Turkey, etc, to extinguish his foes internally. This war might be a good chance to launch an internal campaign on ‘traitors’ who happen to be oligarchs. The cost is to become a global pariah, but hey, Iran and North Korea manage. China won’t ever stop working with them.

zeruch 5y ago
"China won’t ever stop working with them." Not really. They've had a co-opitition things for decades (in the 60s they nearly went to a nuclear exchange, and it stayed frosty well into the 90s and has been touch and go since depending on who is benefitting from what; TBH I suspect Russia is also concerned about becoming a junior partner to the Politburo of Beijing, but first things first and their mutual enemy (the US) seems to be keeping them tenuously together. But if Russia causes any negative externalities on the Chinese economy, it won't drive the PRC to the US, but could very much still push them out of assisting them in any way whatsoever. Even this month China has been talking about unassailable aspects of sovereign borders and not getting involved in such dsputes.