Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[Machiavellian]

CaptainExplosion said:

Machiavellian said:

Thats because you are going on emotion.  You should believe him because its bad for business which is what China is really concerned with more than anything else.  Understanding the self interest of different nations allows you to understand why they choose a path more than anything else.  Right now, none of this benefits China.  If anything China is more than willing to have Russia underneath their thumb so why even give them an advantage when they can just sit back, allow all the sanctions to hit Russia and Russia has no choice but to come to them totally on their terms.

That makes it sound worse, because then China could immediately fall back on such a promise and give Russia new and better troops and hardware to kill us all with.

Naw, China is more concerned about being the economic dominate player in the world, obtaining control by war isn't really helping them.  Putin put Russia in this situation, China is going to win no matter how this plays out so doing nothing is pretty much par for them.