• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    China is straight up funding russia but maybe Ukraine can convince them to flop sides? I’d cast bit doubts on that.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      I feel like this is more along the lines of, “the U.S. and Russia are going to have peace talks about Russia invading us without our input? Two can play at this game.”

  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    Peace talks mediated by Trump’s team while the EU fumes in the wings—diplomatic theater where the ones paying for the war get front-row seats to their own irrelevance. Kyiv’s diplomats peddle “territorial integrity” platitudes to Wang Yi, whose government fuels Russia’s war machine between sips of tea.

    The Munich Security Conference: a masquerade ball where NATO’s hollow posturing meets China’s calculated ambiguity. Zelenskyy’s crew courting Beijing is akin to outsourcing firefighting to a pyromaniac. But who needs coherence when you’ve got photo ops and performative handshakes?