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Mar 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
#China_Russia: There is a misconception that China is using a weakened Russia to extract more material opportunities from it. In my opinion, Putin is also benefiting from a strengthened alliance with Xi (who is going to visit Putin after another autocrat Lukashenko):⤵️
1) China watches and learns from the geopolitical confrontation between Russia and the West, sparked by Putin's war against Ukraine; 2) Russia is exposing the West's toolbox of measures (sanctions) that could be used should China act militarily to gain control of Taiwan.⤵️
Some of the measures are already implemented on the basis of technological competition (for example, export control). Both parties - Russia/Putin and China/Xi - are consciously playing a geopolitical game, in which their rivals are in the West.⤵️
Russia no longer hides it, China will discover this feeling more and more. The internal arena is imminently moving towards a global power struggle between democratic and autocratic regimes, at least so far.

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#NATO_Enlargement: The crisis surrounding Sweden's entry into NATO is deliberately provoked by Turkey (and now apparently exploited by Hungary as well), which demands in return the extradition of 120 Kurds. Erdogan argued that, unlike in Sweden, Turkish legal proceedings will⤵️
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#Risk_Reduction: The unintended consequences of sanctions on Russia can lead to environmental catastrophes. This is related to the old fleet of ships used to export the oil abroad that are poorly insured. It is reported that the Finnish authorities started organizing drills⤵️
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With declining technical capabilities, the Russian authorities cannot guarantee the safety diligence of the cargoes they send by sea, air or land. The environmental impacts of sanctions need to be seriously considered within regional risk assessments.⤵️
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