Crankyhawk
Brownlow Medallist
Russia is not a valid party in whether crimea is independent. Crimea made a unilateral and invalid Declaration of Independence; it’s about as stupid as if Western Australia did the same.Yep, was making no reference to the coming election.
China is steadily becoming the dominant financial, military and diplomatic country on earth and each year that only increases.
The rest of the world is smart enough to care about that, they know their country's relations with China in coming years and decades will go a large way in determining the future health and prosperity of their people.
They also know that China plans over decades and has a very long memory.
Who knows what brand of idiots could be inhabiting the White House over coming decades...is that future looking good to you if you're a US partner or loosely aligned with a choice to make?
Right.
So if Russia had gone to war with Ukraine straight away after Ukraine seized independent Crimea, then re-established independent Crimea by force, rather than foolishly trying to broker a political resolution for all those years right up until 2014, you'd have to back that decision under the same logic and moral standards.
Thanks for clearing that up.