I'm pretty sure this site is full of people who love nothing more than to criticize the US. And furthermore, any possible situation you could name in the Middle East is more nuanced than "West bad."

Okay, but the international community would still view it as annexation so China is praying western aid for Ukraine wanes and Russia keeps the Donbass.

That said, if the Western aid to Ukraine is slow boiling a frog, I can damn near guarantee you the response to an invasion of Taiwan would be more like pan searing a steak.

>Funny thing is that China really doesn't want to acknowledge the annexations and referendums since it is contrary to their One China policy with Taiwan.

Actually to the contrary I think China wants nothing more than Russia to succeed to justify China's own desires to annex sovereign nations that were historically their territory.

Smells like vatnik in here.

Here's how I see the peace talks playing out:

Xi: Maybe give Russia what they want and have a ceasefire

Zelenskyy: Fuck that. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.

Apparently so. Elsewhere in this thread someone is hard on for "the end of nations replaced by a world administration will happen after we all die from climate change, and that's how we'll go spacefaring peacefully"

Considering the USAF has plans to fly the B-52 until at least 2050 I don't see that happening. I'm sure Ukraine and Russia, Pakistan and India, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and Israel and Iran are all just itching to give up their sovereignty and borders to form a sunshine and rainbows world government with each other.

But I'm with the other guy. Fix our planet because day dreaming about terra forming Mars to solve it is just that: day dreaming.

I think it's more likely climate change plunges us into a third world war instead of a sunshine and rainbows world wide mutual aid commune but okay.

Do you honestly believe the US, as an example, will willingly give up its sovereignty within its borders in 40 years? They currently have plans to fly the B-52 bomber for half that window.

What about China? Is the CCP going to relinquish power just for your world government idea?

No kidding. I can guarantee them that say, the US for example, isn't going to give up its sovereignty in 40 or so years. It won't even give up military hegemony and barely even joined the UN.

I never said it isn't possible entirely. I mean I don't think it's possible right now. How quickly do you see current governments being willing to give up their sovereignty?

Sounds good on paper but that just means wars go from being international fighting to partisan fighting. Humans just simply aren't evolved enough yet in my estimation to make that work.