ecosophia | (Reply)

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I disagree with this as well. The problem with selling gas to China is that Beijing will dictate prices, and there's nothing Putin can do about that. He has no leverage over China, and he will be lucky just not to lose money. And China won't let Russia sell gas to India, or at least will make it extremely difficult, China has their own territorial disputes with India. No, he can't afford to lose Europe, at least for the time being. There are a lot of things attached to doing business with China, and there are no legal measures Russia can take against Beijing. Maybe Putin himself doesn't have to worry about sanctions, but Russian people do. They already had issues opening bank accounts in China post-2014, and Chinese companies don't want to lose access to Northern American and Western Europe markets. And the Russian government advised its people to eat bark, so they won't be hungry. In Chinese, Russia is often called 饿国 (lit. "hungry country", play on words 俄国 "Russian Country" 饿 and 俄 are pronounced the same, but have different tones) and Russians are called 老毛子 (literally hirsute people). Chinese would rather lose trade with Russia than with the West.
I'm curious, why do you use "the Ukraine"? Since Ukraine is an independent country, it just seems strange to me.
P.S. I didn't expect the US embassy in Kiev to troll Russians, but troll them they did.
https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKyiv/status/1496115593149358081?cxt=HHwWgoC5iZHNosMpAAAA

Kyivan - 基辅罗斯人