• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Russia becoming essentially a Chinese satellite was always how this ended. The question is how much damage is done along the way and how well our nice little international status quo fares in the meantime.

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      7 months ago

      Oddly less scared of China running Russia than I am of Putin running Russia

      I guess it’s because the Chinese government at least hasn’t seemed insane enough to make me seriously ponder if we’re about to see nuclear armageddon

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        7 months ago

        All other things being equal, there are no benevolent dictators. One more powerful one isn’t an improvement on two weaker ones.