Just out of curiosity, when China says that Taiwan is part of China--presumably justifying a forthcoming invasion of that country by them--do you agree with them too?
You are among those who I don't seem to agree with. You used the word 'too' in your question, but you didn't explain what you are referring to when using it.
You seem to agree with Putin that Ukraine is properly party of Russia (thus justifying Russia's attack on Ukraine).
So would you agree with China as well with respect to Taiwan?
Okay, think about this. We knew it all along, but we just didn't have any incentive to focus on it before.
If a guy from New York City talks to a guy from Abilene, Texas, they both understand each other, but it is difficult for them because the dialects of English are different. If you add a mountain man from the mountains in Tennessee, it becomes more difficult, still, because the Tennessee dialect is different than both of the others. Add a guy from the State of Georgia, and it becomes even more difficult. The languages of these people are all English. They are simply a different form of English... dialects.
Ukrainian is essentially a dialect of Russian. Even though there are several different languages spoken in Ukraine, the real Slavic language of Ukraine is simply a dialect of Russian. But you could say that Russian is a dialect of Ukrainian.
Something like 29% of Ukrainians (before the war) spoke Russian as their first language.
But that's not even the point. The point is that the Ukraine government was attacking their own people who spoke Russian... starting in and even before 2014. Putin simply protected these people when it became necessary.
The situation is different between China and Taiwan. China isn't trying to protect Taiwanese from a warmongering Taiwan government as Putin was protecting Ukrainians from a warmongering Ukraine government.
What NO ONE is saying about Tucker Carlson's Putin Interview
https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/10/what-no-one-is-saying-about-tucker-carlsons-putin-interview/
Everyone is talking about Tucker Carlson's interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The two-hour long conversation was live-streamed on twitter. Every major news outlet has had some form of coverage.
You can watch the whole thing here:
After eight years of covering the Ukraine coup/civil War, and more specifically Western propaganda on Russia, I could pretty much tell you everything Putin was going to say before he said it.
Anybody who has covered Russia or Ukraine could tell you that.
He was always going to detail, in cogent and historically literate terms, Russia's position on Ukraine.
He was always going to cite the (very real) broken promises Western diplomats made about NATO's Eastward expansion.
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