China will feast on the carcass
 

Any Military strategists out there?
Will China walk into Russia? Putins current war has shown great weakness in the Russian military, and the Russian economy. Possibly a historic Blunder?

As Russian population decreases along with them having a poor military it will be hard for them to hold onto all their territory. Can see pieces being picked up but probably not in our lifetime.

Wildcard of course is their nuclear weapons

No one walks into any country that has nuclear weapons.
Russia has enough WMD to take care of any threat.
History shows the Russian Winter will defeat invaders as well.

Won't global warming take care of that in a few years.:icon_wink:

I am very surprised at the ineptness of the Russian troops....I suspected that this would have been over in a matter of days

so sad that so much of Ukraine is being destroyed and leveled....

Suspect a lot of this is that the Russian troops have nothing to fight about just want to go home.

Not to mention the Ukranians have long memories going back to Stalin starving them in the millions.

Haven’t seen nothing yet!!!:)

Nah…..it will be closed.

China has focused on the western Pacific, it has expanded its navy both quantitatively as well as qualitatively, look for Taiwan to "reunited" with continental China, probable just a walk over because there is no way we could stop it if we tried. China is a hybrid of big business and a totalitarian government , more like the national socialist of the 30-40, make deal with the big businesses and its a done deal

Got cleaned up!

Damn... I missed the fireworks!

Reuters March 25
China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as sanctions mount over the invasion of Ukraine.

The move by Asia’s biggest oil refiner to hit the brakes on a potentially half-billion-dollar investment in a gas chemical plant and a venture to market Russian gas in China highlights the risks, even to Russia’s most important diplomatic partner, of unexpectedly heavy Western-led sanctions.

Nuclear genie
 

seventy years ago this analysis would have been spot on. However as other posters have stated, nuclear weapons are the rubicon that china will not cross. Nato's doctrine in europe was that nuclear weapons against the numerically superior ussr and warsaw forces would be utilized if nato borders were overun. That would be russia's position today vs china.

Back in the ussr
 

despite putin's imperial and quixotic fantasy to reconstitute the russian empire the wannabe czar forgot that the russian soldiers and forces have no heart in killing their ukrainian brothers and sisters.

Putin thought they would just roll over. Did not occur to him that they would fight.

Once upon a time Russian soldiers who did not fight got stood up against a wall and shot. Those days are gone apparently.