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We’re definitely in the pre-war era. It’s like when Britain was trying to negotiate with Hitler while rearming in the background. China is going to attack pearl harbour in the hopes that a sudden unexpected attack will cripple the pacific fleet and knock America out of the war. It won’t work, we’ll go through hell again. But every time these places think it will work, and they don’t factor in the fact that they are c…
>no choice but to escalate and invade Eastern Europe. They can barely hold on to Eastern Ukraine, them taking the entirety of Ukraine is not likely at all given that they have had to slog for many years just to take and hold one small part of the country. If they can’t even take all of Ukraine, I don’t think it’s very likely they try to attack any more of Europe.
And despite of 23k of sanctions they've imposed on Russia, which is the absolute record by a looooooong margin on its own.