hairyfeet

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Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums in c/world@lemmy.world
Chinese nationals captured fighting for Russia in eastern Ukraine, Zelensky says in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] hairyfeet@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 weeks ago

This isn't new, there were Chinese mercs fighting in the first couple of years of the war.

https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-mercenaries-russia-ukraine-war-1876765

There was also that video doing the rounds of a Chinese merc asking his government to pull him off the front line.

German security officials believe the Kremlin is laying the groundwork for a potential large-scale conventional war with NATO by the end of the decade in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] hairyfeet@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Why would either need to side with Russia? They only have 140m people, a untrustworthy and soon to be unstable government. If you're aim is to carve up territory then you don't give a potential long term adversary access to half a billion people.