Russian invasion of Ukraine

[trentrunciman]

I think China has a very different strategy.
Leave Asia alone, and we don't care about your problems.

I doubt China will directly help Russia, nor condone Russia. While Russia may endorse a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, China so far hasn't endorsed Russia's action in the Ukraine.

China is trying to remain neutral to keep up trading partnerships and international friendships. It is only openly hostile to those countries that are openly hostile to it. Or people who (rightly) mention the gross human rights abuses going on in China.

Taiwan will be watching what has happened in the Ukraine. They will rightly have zero confidence in trade sanctions stopping or deterring a Chinese advance. I expect Taiwan to make alliances with South Korea and Japan, but we will see what these alliances mean when push comes to shove.

we dont get the "other perspective" on Taiwan/HK TBH.

I have a lot of friends over there that want to unify with China but the western media only show the protests. Majority of locals in HK called the pro democracy demonstrators "COCKROACHES" because they only came out at night wearing black and worse black masks and vandalised businesses. I remember i was walking around Mong Kok at night and some protesters came out to loot a business and all the locals in cantonese yelled "Gak Jak! Gak Jak!" I cracked up cause that means "cockroach!!"

I got the photo of the kid but think i deleted it. Cops came and arrested them.

 

[FinestTigers]

So what happens now @swag_tiger if the Yanks decided to get tough and massed 250k of their troops on the Ukraine border and told Russia we are going to liberate Ukraine from your tyranny and make them a free and neutral country.
Will the Russians risk nuclear war?

G'day @magpie1963,
A nuclear war is just unthinkable, if even it were a small nuclear war it would cause a nuclear winter that would destroy crops all over the planet and plunging billions into famine and death.
It is just unthinkable.

 

[trentrunciman]

G'day @magpie1963,
A nuclear war is just unthinkable, if even it were a small nuclear war it would cause a nuclear winter that would destroy crops all over the planet and plunging billions into famine and death.
It is just unthinkable.

yup, another world war in this day and age would be impossible considering the advancements in weapons and the reliance of most countries economically. The worlds become a much smaller place.

 

[TrueTiger]

Your so disrespectful innocent people are losing there lives in a war and you just come on here and spill your bs agenda and start petty fights sick of your bs.

Dont read it....show me the death toll in Ukraine OFFICIALLY....not by BS msm...
I suppose it would surprise you that the Ukrainian people asked Putin for help to get rid of the corrupt murderous regime in govt there...the child traffickers,drug money laundering regime that has terrified and begrudged the citizens of Ukraine for the last 8 years...Ukraine isnt even a member of NATO and the US backed forces are inching their way to the Russian border...no wonder Putin is upset....

 

[Odessa]

Dont 'day @magpie1963,

A nuclear war is just unthinkable, if even it were a small nuclear war it would cause a nuclear winter that would destroy crops all over the planet and plunging billions into famine and death.
It is just unthinkable.

Don't put it past Putin rumour has it he has cancer one last hurrah

 

[Oggyz]

The moment one side pushes the button the other side pushes theirs. Mutually assured destruction.

 

[trentrunciman]

The moment one side pushes the button the other side pushes theirs. Mutually assured destruction.

lol what?

if one side pushes their nuclear missles how on earth would the other push theirs? LMFAO

ok enough forum fun for today for me

 

[jadtiger]

Dont read it....show me the death toll in Ukraine OFFICIALLY....not by BS msm...
I suppose it would surprise you that the Ukrainian people asked Putin for help to get rid of the corrupt murderous regime in govt there...the child traffickers,drug money laundering regime that has terrified and begrudged the citizens of Ukraine for the last 8 years...Ukraine isnt even a member of NATO and the US backed forces are inching their way to the Russian border...no wonder Putin is upset....

Those comments are beneath contempt.Stop reading the lunatic websites

 

[Nelson]

Those comments are beneath contempt.Stop reading the lunatic websites

He's probably writing a lunatic website by now. He crossed the Rubicon a while ago now.

 

[TrueTiger]

Time will tell.......

 

[Odessa]

Yesterday

 

[Odessa]

Yesterday

 

[Odessa]

Sad

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Hey Earl.I have a question for you...have you got the proof that Putin is invading Ukraine to kill innocent men women and children in the name of just having a war or is he cleaning the place of corrupt authoritarian Kazarian mafia that has done more damage to the people over the years with the help of Biden,Obama and Clintons than Putin ever will ?? MSM certainly gets into many peoples minds.....

Russia sending people in to clean up corruption. Haha OK mate.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Gross that there are so many Putin tankies on this forum.

 

[Oggyz]

lol what?

if one side pushes their nuclear missles how on earth would the other push theirs? LMFAO

ok enough forum fun for today for me

It’s not a difficult concept, or it shouldn’t be.

 

[TillLindemann]

Gross that there are so many Putin tankies on this forum.

Absolutely, there is no defending what he has done, he will go down in history as an invader and war criminal.

 

[TillLindemann]

@Odessa I'm guessing by your name you're Ukrainian?

 

[Nelson]

lol what?

if one side pushes their nuclear missles how on earth would the other push theirs? LMFAO

ok enough forum fun for today for me

Because nobody leaves their entire nuclear arsenal in one convenient, signposted location and without bomb-proofing.

 

[crazycat]

we dont get the "other perspective" on Taiwan/HK TBH.

I have a lot of friends over there that want to unify with China but the western media only show the protests. Majority of locals in HK called the pro democracy demonstrators "COCKROACHES" because they only came out at night wearing black and worse black masks and vandalised businesses. I remember i was walking around Mong Kok at night and some protesters came out to loot a business and all the locals in cantonese yelled "Gak Jak! Gak Jak!" I cracked up cause that means "cockroach!!"

I got the photo of the kid but think i deleted it. Cops came and arrested them.

The situation is far more complex then you make out above. Ofcourse you may want to spare those details.

One key detail is that Hong Kong protesters were often Christian converts and being spurned on by Westernized pastors. Yes they are hated.

The other key detail, many people in Hong Kong want to stay as a British colony and they knew that their freedom and way of life would be more restricted under Chinese rule. They also accept this with a resignation that this is their fate.

Every Taiwanese person I have spoken too hates the notion of China taken over. Calling them Chinese is a good way to get a punch in the face. Naturally some Taiwanese may disagree with this.
Taiwan was a bastion and settlement place where the loosing faction of the Chinese civil war came to settle. Many hate Communism because hey Mao and the communists won their war and they lost.

Clearly this has about Zero to do with Football. Yet sadly the people of Ukraine are now experiencing bullets and severe hardship because of this global situation. We have failed them, the west forced Ukraine to disarm it's nuclear weapons in exchange for protection and we are not living up to our side of the treaty (no idea if Australia signed).