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Feb 27

You might have never heard of cities called "Khaishenvai", "Boli" or "Shuangchenzi" as well as the island of "Quedao", because that are the official names according the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources for Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Ussuriysk and Sakhalin, "newly" introduced.

I cannot say that I'm surprised, aside that it happens a earlier.

When you look into (Chinese) history you will find the chapter of "Unequal Treaties" where parts of China were carved out and integrated into imperial powers, e.g. Britain, Germany, France, Japan and...Russia.

All imperial powers have left China (feudal borders) some time ago - Portugal in Macao was the last - except for one:

Russia

Of course you will not find any discussion regarding this in China, for political reasons, yet, but the sentiment never disappeared.

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Feb 11

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/963488632563740677

5 years ago I wrote this tweet. It was a few days after Russians and Assadist forces tried to take over the Al Omar oil fields in eastern Syria by attacking US-backed SDF troops. It was a disaster for the Russians. PMC Wagner lost an entire battalion within few hours.
#Syria

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/963488632563740677

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/914110667535392769?s=20

What happened before this fateful event:

SDF was successfully advancing south. By that time a significant part of the oil fields had been under SDF control and more fields further south, which were under Islamic State control, were in reach.

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/914110667535392769?s=20

The Assad regime forces as well as Russians understood that it was important for them to thwart that. So Assad and Putin cooked up a plane to attack SDF, directly, and seize the very lucrative Al Omar oil fields.
#DeirEzzor #Syria

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Feb 10

The whole situation around Vuhledar gets even spicier when reflecting this little know fact that another mercenary group, "PMC Patriot", is operating there, and they are led by no other than Russian Defense Minister Shoigu.
#Vuhledar #Ukraine
n-tv.de/politik/Ukrain…

The Russian military has fielded huge amounts of troops and gear in order to take Vuhledar. They were even so convinced to succeed that they glaringly used their propaganda outlets to announce that the takeover will be achieved "within 72h".

Everything was prepared for the "glorious Russian victory" and Shoigu, so that he sees himself vindicated.
The fact that it ended in such an epic disaster for the Russian side, and especially for Shoigu as well as the (official) Russian military altogether, makes this hilarious.

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Jan 23

Igor “Strelkov” Girkin continues to attack decisions made by the Russian leadership. Today, he attacks Russia’s adventure in Syria. Screenshot (source is his Telegram channel) speaks volumes. He is right when he calls Syria a “bottomless hole”. But what’s Putin’s motive? Thread

Some say that he wanted to project Russian power into the Middle East while the US were gradually withdrawing. But I think that this was only a secondary reason. Far more important was to him something personal and that’s the fate of an helpless dictator, Assad’s fate.

Putin’s trauma started in Dresden 1989 and with it his desperate calls to Moscow for help while East-Germany was falling apart. Moscow ignored his pleas and forced him to retreat into his KGB headquarters. He was terrified that people will storm it and lynch him.

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Jan 20

Newest US military package for Ukraine:

- 59x Bradley IFVs with 590 TOWs and 295,000 rounds of 25mm ammunition
- 8x AN/TWQ-1 Avenger Air Defense Systems
- 90x Stryker APCs
- 350x HMMWVs
- 53x MRAPs
- 20,000 155mm arty ammo
- 95,000 105mm arty ammo
- 12,000 120mm mortar ammo

- Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS)
- Approximately 600 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds
- Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)
- 12x ammunition support vehicles
- HARMs missiles

- 22 tactical vehicles to tow weapons
- Approximately 2,000 anti-armor rockets
- Over 3,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition;
- Demolition equipment for obstacle clearing;
- Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
- Night vision devices;
- Spare parts and other field equipment.

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Jan 15

Die SPD ist völlig in ihrer verfehlten Russlandpolitik verfangen. Sie wird zwar am Ende dazu gezwungen werden, das richtige zu tun, aber ihr niederwürfiges Verhalten für Moskau wird ihr ewig anhängen. Viel schlimmer ist es aber für die Grünen und FDP. Warum? Kleiner Thread:

Sowohl bei der FDP aber viel mehr noch bei den Grünen ist die Ostpolitik der SPD ein Grauß. Sie ist nämlich zutiefst anti-europäisch und hat keinerlei Zukunft. Grüne und FDP-Wähler sind allerdings tief in Europa verankert und werden das Verhalten des Kanzleramtes nicht verzeihen.

Was bedeutet das? Man wird Wählerbewegungen sehen, die von den Grünen und FDP weggehen werden, vermutlich sehr stark in Richtung CDU/CSU. Besonders bei den Landtagswahlen in Hessen und Bayern wird das zur Sprache kommen, denn Europa ist hier wichtig. Es wird Denkzettel geben.

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