They have the sabers so they might as well rattle them.
They know it would risk a war with the US which they know they can't win.
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I don't think that sentiment is echoed by Taiwan any more.
Technically you are right, they are much closer to the legitimate government of China than the communist party are but in practice it's not really achievable.
No one was giving them a free pass come on.
It's been pointed out to them many times that if they remove the right to protest people will just go to more extreme options. But they apparently don't care so by all means throw rocks at him.
Yeah but that's what sanctions are. It's not really possible to have convenient sanctions. How would that work.
He isn't suicidal. He wants to be in charge of he's imagined great empire, it's kind of hard to do that if it's in a radioactive wasteland even if he does survive.
I don't think they even bother with elections. Russia is dictatorship not a democracy
No one's advocating for a nuclear war. If there is one Russia will be the one to start it there's no reason for China in North Korea to get involved.
Right and how are we going to encourage that state of affairs? Because we tried asking really nicely and that didn't work we tried sanctions and that didn't work and the people don't seem that interested in rising up themselves so what do we do?
The options are war or to ignore it.
If it weren't for the existence of Russia's massive fleet of nuclear weapons (which probably don't actually work but it's a hell of a risk) i'm sure NATO would have already got involved.
The only reasonable way I can see this war ending is if the internal politics of Russia decide Putin is now too much of a problem and deal with him themselves. Then whoever takes charge backs out of Ukraine because it's not a winnable conflict.
I can't see how anyone external can bring about an end to the conflict without risking massive escalation.
You can tell because the shit would basically be impossible in real life.
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