Is your opinion "let Russia win"?

What's yours?

Hard to sanction a country with an HDI lower than Venezuela

Or even China. Who knows, maybe we get to sit out this potential bigger conflict what seems inevitable. Or then we get to fight the russians again

Literally who has opposed bringing India into the west’s side, or attempting that?

Waste of time

No I actually believe Russia has heard all the hype about Lobster Boat Cheddar Bay Biscuits and can’t fathom living in a society without them. Depriving their citizens from these delicious biscuits is clawing at them in ways that are unimaginable. It’s a serious problem they have, which is understandable as they are amazing.

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> The European Union on Saturday announced additional sanctions against Russia's Wagner Group mercenary and economic organization for "Human rights abuses" committed in the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and Ukraine.

> The Wagner Group itself was already placed under EU sanctions in 2021, the US recently labeled it a "Transnational criminal organization."

> According to a report this month on Wagner by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, the CAR is Wagner's biggest African base of operations.

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It's a traditional Chinese medicine thing if I remember correctly.

Anytime you think Russia might have a plan, look at the conflict so far.

Good, should have happened a year ago, but better late than never.

That did happen. And then Iran got all their best hackers and stole all the data from NATO and transfered it to themselves. Then NATO got all their best hackers and...

World of tech is weird, man

That is not how international relations work.

Who says it hasn’t happened already?

It’s not a bad idea, but it shouldn’t be a public inquiry in the topic of national security, maybe let people do their jobs and not perform their jobs

What's with Orban's more talk needed? Does he really want to be friend with Russia at expense of annoying EU and NATO?

Let's keep the donkey skin trade restricted to Rimworld.

Don't need this endangered subspecies wiped out for fake medicinal junk products

There was an article in Finnish news yesterday that has a different tone, saying that "Orban calls on party to back Finnish, Swedish Nato bids". And as far as the delays go, (Telex is a Hungarian news site):

> According to Telex, the hesitation among Fidesz MPs does not necessarily mean there will be a delay in the parliamentary process, and Kocsis also thinks it is unlikely that the vote will be postponed.

China need Russia for its resources and China does not have many friends either.

Funny you mention the spotted owl - the specific donkeys being slaughtered are much more endangered than the spotted owl.

So that's the problem.

I could be wrong but I'd say there are many more Indians living in the West/NATO countries than living in Russia so there should be some significant ties.

If chickens, pigs, or cows were endangers then that'd be a problem too, yeah.

Someone else explained this really well in comments in another post. I believe they said something like 'They keep updating sanctions over time to maximize impact, basically after a while when Russia gets uhm what's the right word 'comfortable?' with certain sanctions they will add new ones on other important things to impact as much damage as possible to their economy.' Basically the idea is dealing much more damage over a long period of time than can be done at once.

Not as close as India and Russia.

Germany actually occupied and colonized part of China, and that is not yet forgotten nor completely forgiven.

Obviously Russia had also invaded China and stolen large swathes of lands from China in the 1800s, (stolen lands that Russia still keeps, like Siberia.) so China actually does not and would NEVER think of Russia as a "real friend". When it comes to White people in general, pretty much they all have invaded, looted, pillaged and occupied China at one time or another. So China has no friends among White people, and China would NEVER trust any White people including Russians. When dealing with White people, China would do whatever that serve China's own interests for the time being.

FYI:

China agreed to entered World War I and joined the Allies on the condition that, if the Allies won the war, the German-held colony in China (Qingdao) would be returned to China. The United States, which brokered that agreement with China, actually made a double deal behind China's back: the US also convinced Japan to join the Allies and enter the war... and one of the condition offered to Japan: when the Allies won the war, Japan would given control of the same German colony in China. (Today Qingdao is an interesting place in China: it has both German and Japanese influences.)

Also FYI:

Ryukyu used to be a Chinese tributary territories, but the US deceived China and stole it from China and gave it to Japan. You know Ryukyu as Okinawa.

How it happened: in the 1800s Japan invaded Ryukyu, which was a tributary state under the protection of China. China was about go to war with Japan, but the US (which was still mostly a new and unknown entity to China at the time) stepped in and volunteered to mediate between China and Japan. Unbeknown to China, the US also secretly cut a deal with Japan: Japan would open some ports to trade with the US if the US would give Ryukyu to Japan in the mediation. And that was how China lost Ryukyu to Japan.

Do you see a pattern here?