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They waited to go to war until after the Beijing Olympics, in coordination with China [0]. And China has been cheering them on [1]. Looks like someone made a fr
by vnchr 5y ago
They waited to go to war until after the Beijing Olympics, in coordination with China [0]. And China has been cheering them on [1]. Looks like someone made a friend.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/us/politics/russia-ukraine-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/us/politics/russia-ukrain...
[1] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/10/china/china-russia-disinformation-campaign-ukraine-intl-dst-hnk/index.html https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/10/china/china-russia-disinf...
- dragonwriter 5y ago> They waited to go to war until after the Beijing Olympics, in coordination with China. And China has been cheering them on. Looks like someone made a friend. Friends don't make friends delay invasions so that they will get bogged down in mud, or egg them on in disastrous courses of action that happen to serve the geopolitical interest of the cheerleader by consuming attention of geopolitical rivals. That's callous exploitation, not friendship.
- sandworm101 5y agoCrimea was invaded days after the 2014 Sochi games. The rest of Ukraine days after the 2022 Beijing games. It's becoming a Russian tradition.