https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-s ... 022-03-07/orathaic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:44 pmChina specifically is not in a rush. They were a world power before the US had spread across the continent, and they will be again. The 200 years in between have not been kind, but they can afford to bide their time and not get into a war which could set them back a few decades.
Putin leading a declining Russia is not in a similar position. Did anyone else see his terms?
"Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was demanding that Ukraine cease military action, change its constitution to enshrine neutrality, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory, and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states."