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1. Who could have seen this coming?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:46 PM

Thursday

China's broader strategy, I suspect, is taking control of several Eastern Russian Oblasts, even as Putin drains potential troops from them for his war on Ukraine, including Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky and Stavropol Krai. Cantonese is spoken in many of these, and quite a few East Russians identify more closely with China.

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