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Uglyface2 posted...

It concerns me that the world governments want to try sanctions against a guy who doesn't seem to care what they're going to do and who was just making nice with Xi Jinping at the Olympics. Putin might not need the rest of the world if he has China backing him with tech and manufacturing needs.

I think it's not so much importing that Russia will need as it is exporting. There's no use in having all that oil and gas and traders in Moscow if there's nobody to trade with. Most of Asia bar Japan and SK will probably stick with Russia, but good luck keeping a half-decent economy if the EU, AU and US all won't buy your shit. Unfortunately, it's looking like the sanctions required aren't going to be harsh enough, but I believe they would be effective in destabilising Russia if stronger.

Regardless, China already look like they're going to be the big winners of this war. Giving more power to China is probably why a lot of states are pushing back against sanctions against Russia, and is something I haven't seen mentioned a lot yet (but will probably be discussed a lot more once the whole war in Europe thing is less novel). Russia is already heavily dependent on China and will become even more so as a result of this, with their trade partners further limited. I think that China had already profited (relative to the rest of the world, at least) the moment Russia invaded Ukraine, and keeping China away from Russia is probably not worth all the handwringing and weak sanctions which won't do much. The latter part is probably a hot take (hence why the bullshit is continuing and will continue for some time), partially because broader levels of analysis tends to think more about geopolitical power than actual human lives.