What value does Chinas no-limit friendship give to Russians? China doesn't even throw a bone to Russia and pay same amount from the gas and oil as west does/did, on the contrary, they are taking advantage of the situation just like Indians.
lol.
Daily reminder that Russian economy is same size as Italys and doing worse. Russians are pumping huge amounts of money into this useless war and they still have to keep up society running under sanctions what cost a lot of money.
They are currently pumping money so economy doesn't crash but...
Amazing how Russians keep shooting down Ukrainian fighters despite the fact that according to their own propaganda they've already destroyed Ukrainian air force twice.
Now let's compare those numbers with what Ukraine has before war begun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Air_Force#Inventory_as_of_February_2022
Amazing how Russians shoot down more fighters and helicopters than what Ukraine ever had and Ukrainians are still flying... Russian propaganda...
Russians have always made this kinda statements about smaller nations surrounding it.
Then Russians wonder why baltic states joined NATO when they got a change.
lol, now Russian trolls are claiming that Donetsk river operation wasn't an feint but that those vehicles are actually Ukrainian. Story changes everyday.
If you agree with Russian arguments then we can also conclude that India isn't an real nation nor are Indians really independent people and whole place with it's population actually belongs to Great Britain. After all India was the Crown Jewel.
Indian independence was a historical mistake, right?
Turkish foreign minister told that Turkey doesn't oppose Finlands NATO membership and Erdogans comment was against Sweden.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/55e69ba0-d360-4cfa-8823-f6c81b1c77da
Turkish foreign minister said that his country won't oppose Finlands membership.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/55e69ba0-d360-4cfa-8823-f6c81b1c77da
It was Chinese who did see a problem with it.
When US gets it's more sophisticated foundries working Chinese threats about destroying Taiwanese chip manufacturing plants become useless as US can make it's own and then some.
World needs more chips and these new plants in US are a good thing.
Xi is tightening control on private corporations, aka making them ineffecient, you'll see that China is slowly sliding towards pre-liberalization.
China begun growing when they abandoned "top-down command economy" for ecocomic liberalism but now it seems they are sliding back towards old days...
Russian military has lost over 100 T-72B3 Object 2016 tanks out of 570 and those have modern western optics what Russians can't get anymore and those losses continue. Most common tank among Russian army ranks is T-72B and it's variants but all of those lack proper armor and come with primitive...