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Russia is very much the junior partner in the relationship with China, and now that they have burned their bridges to the West they lack any leverage against Ch
by kryptiskt 5y ago
Russia is very much the junior partner in the relationship with China, and now that they have burned their bridges to the West they lack any leverage against China. They are going to have to defer a lot more going forwards.
- celticninja 5y agoYup, as sole buyer China are going to set the price of Russia's oil and gas.
- lupire 5y agoDoes China have other sellers?
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"Russia is very much the junior partner in the relationship with China" Exactly, Putin is not the grand strategist the world thinks he is
- jonnycomputer 5y agoAnyone that can make Switzerland and Sweden take sides against you isn't a grand strategist.
- ncmncm 5y agoPutin just was, and remains, in a desperate place. Strategy is fine at leisure. He had no choice but to do something to seem strong, to remain in power. If this doesn't work, he may move on to something desperate.
- seniorivn 5y agothat's not true at all, he doesn't need anything to remain in power, but if he wanted to get more popular among general population he could provided economic growth
- ncmncm 5y agoEvidently he is not, then, interested in getting more popular, because the invasion is an economic disaster. But he doesn't get his power from popularity. He gets it by being the baddest ass on the totem pole. Chances are the invasion on the northern and eastern fronts are more or less feints, and only the southern front actually matters to him, as it gets him full control of the Black Sea shore and the oil fields. He needs the Ukrainian forces fully occupied elsewhere, and doesn't much care what happens there as long as it absorbs enough of their attention.
- newuser94303 5y agoRussia may become like a bigger North Korea. North Korea doesn't listen to China but it doesn't go out of it's way to piss China off. China props it up because it doesn't want a bigger humanitarian crisis on it's borders. China will probably prop Russia up 1) It will get Oil and Gas cheaper 2) A mean Russia keeps the West from picking on China. 3) Russia has a lot of nukes and making it crazy helps nobody.