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I'm thinking they're being hoarded for one massive strike against Russian thermal power(heating?) systems. Payback's a bitch.I think it's time for Ukraine to send a FP-5 Flamingo strike into the Russian defence ministry in Moscow.
Interesting. It's not exactly the Schwerer Gustav that the Germans deployed to Crimea in the 1940s.
Probably, it would be possible with someone like Deng, not with Xi.When the war first started I wondered if China would make a smart move to abandon its support of Russia (see Sino-Soviet split) and throw its lot in with Ukraine, with a move to get its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the Stans (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan) to Europe through Ukraine. Imagine Putin's faceplant if in March 2022, China denounces Russia's action and votes in favour of UN ES-11/1, condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This is followed in Sept 2022 by Xi Jinping inviting Zelenskyy to meet privately with him in Kazakhstan during Xi's first international trip since Covid, after which non-lethal aid begins to flow from China to Ukraine. Next, in Dec 2022, Xi visited Saudi Arabia, and in this scenario, after securing oil supplies from the Arabs, announces that China will begin limiting its purchases of Russian oil and gas, with an aim to be zero on both by the end of 2024. In 2024, China unilaterally cancels the 2008 China-Russia Border Agreement and demands that negotiations begin on returning territory to China. Then I woke up, sigh...