(04-08-2025, 06:49 PM)gortex Wrote: Ukrainian troops have captured 2 Chinese nationals from a group of 6 who were fighting in the Donetsk region of Ukraine , it's unknown how many other Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia or if they were there with the knowledge of China or are mercenaries , either way their capture raises serious questions for China.
While Ukraine fights Russia with one hand tied behind its back Putin is free to do as he pleases , I await Trump's response to this.
"It's unknown how many other Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia or if they were there with the knowledge of China or are mercenaries , either way their capture raises serious questions for China."
The two ideas are not mutually exclusive. Could be both - they could be there fighting as mercenaries with the full knowledge and approval of the CCP... they could even be on the CCP payroll. Nations often use their nationals as mercenaries to maintain plausible deniability - "it wasn't us. We didn't even know they were there!"
If I were Trump, I wouldn't bother noticing it at all. That's a Russian Civil War problem, not a US problem. Let Russia and their breakaway province of the Ukraine duke it out. Not our concern, especially when we've got so many other irons in the fire at the moment.
I guess we could send some more US mercenaries into the fray, just to even out the mercenary situation. It's not like we haven't already sent a passel of 'em under the BidenHarris regime. BidenHarris apparently didn't have a problem interfering in other folks' affairs.
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