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The goal of the war from the US perspective was to isolate Russia and Western Europe from one another economically (successful). Secondary to that was destabilisation of Russia via a long expensive war of attrition. Ukraine doesn't really matter, despite reports it's not sitting on incredible riches of mineral reserves.
Those are also China's objectives, but secondary to "make bank selling weapons components to both sides".
China plays geopolitics exactly the way America did, pre-WW1...
The real red pill is that everyone who can, plays geopolitics like this. If Tuvalu could, they would rule the world with an iron fist.
I think China has a strategic interest in Russian territorial integrity, though I'm sure they want them financially dependent on them. They probably don't want to deal with breakaway banana republics on their border. They would probably invade them for "security" reasons, but I think they're happy to leave them as they are. Likewise, Pakistan is probably getting extremely good arms prices to ensure the trade route through Kashmir is maintained. Bangladesh and Myanmar are also supplied to try to box in India, though I doubt they're considered as important.
That requires a political class with a strong sense of shared fate. Russia has it. The USA has it. Tuvalu likely has it. Australia does not, and neither do most banana republics...
Remember this?
“It was not what you do to a friendly state. And it was not something you do for commercial advantage.”
LOL, LMAO even
Woodside was playing to win, Timor Leste got robbed, but IDK how Australia benefitted from this.
We can't even refine the crude, because BANANAs and permits.
Mineral rights licenses, taxes etc. Same story with our now dead steel industry but we still make money from the iron ore. We're never getting that back btw, China's refining tech is 20 years ahead of everyone now.
It's funny that most people outside (and probably inside) Australia don't understand that the Lucky Country was meant to be an insult