The real winner of Russia’s war with Ukraine could be China’s military

[Kamaji]

The real winner of Russia’s war with Ukraine could be China’s military

By Harry J. Kazianis
March 8, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin had one goal in Ukraine: Make Russia great again through 19th-century-style military conquest. He’s failed in spectacular fashion.

It may even be that all Vlad will have done is turn his country into a vassal state of China — think a giant North Korea — that ends up dependent on the Chinese Communist Party for essentially everything economically.

Quite soon, Moscow might need Beijing to buy almost all its oil, coal and gas, along with its grain and timber, process its credit-card transactions and supply it with nearly all its high-end technology to run its Internet services and anything that involves a microchip.

And that’s just the beginning. This sad arrangement might also extend to Russia selling China its best military hardware — and that should make the Pentagon absolutely terrified.

Clearly, China’s military is licking its chops, ready to buy — officially or unofficially — any of Russia’s advanced weaponry as Putin and his cronies get desperate to ensure the country’s ability to keep its arms industry intact in a time of war as sanctions batter its economy and past clients look elsewhere.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/03/08/the-real-winner-of-russias-war-with-ukraine-could-be-chinas-military/

[mountaineer]

I just came across another "the only winner" editorial. This by Daniel Greenfield:

Greenfield: Islam is the Only Winner in the Ukraine War
Daniel Greenfield
 3 hours ago

Russia, with a birth rate of 1.5 children per woman, has invaded Ukraine, where the birth rate is 1.2 children per woman, to determine which nation with below replacement birth rates will go extinct the fastest. In the long run the only winners of the war to determine whether Ukraine will belong to the 1.2 or 1.5 people will be the Chechen and other Muslim soldiers doing the fighting.

The Chechens have a birth rate of 2.5. Their religion and mosques are more likely to inherit the territories they are fighting over than either the Russian or Ukrainian Orthodox churches. ...

very Ukrainian and Russian death is another loss that will never be demographically replaced.

Western Europe and Russia have dueling visions for Ukraine and the territories of the former Soviet Union. Europe would like them to join a wonderful union based around peace, tolerance, and importing millions of Muslims to balance out all the peaceful tolerant Europeans. Putin would like to induct them into Greater Russia which will unite Islam and Christianity.

Europeans claim that they can have a tolerant society built around the demographic growth of a religion that murders unbelievers. Putin claims that a new Christian Russian empire will be built on a multifaith alliance with a religion that has spent centuries destroying Christian empires.  ...

Whatever the various sides claim to be fighting for, a Greater Russia, democracy, or nationalism, the only thing they’re really doing is accelerating their own defeat.

China and the Islamic Ummah need only watch and alternately cheer both sides on.  ...

Entire article at Politichicks

Looks like he also sees China as a big winner.