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>But Chinese rockets hitting Ukrainian kids in Kyiv/Europe? That would trigger dramatic sanctions.

Why? We haven't sanctioned the US for the children killed by Ukraine with US weapons in the Donbass.

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When exactly did US invade Ukraine?

(And at least here at HN you avoid the most obvious propaganda cliches) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_have_you_been_for_eigh...

You call it a cliche, not a lie ;-)

It's a lie by default like any other Russian narratives nowadays. You just happen to use the most crocked one which I pointed out

Propaganda are lies.

No one in the entire world has the necessary economic leverage to bring the US to its knees by applying economic sanctions to it. Even if they had such leverage, they wouldn't use it since the US will simply declare war and use its military might to end the sanctions. They've sent gunboats to other people's countries for far lesser offenses.

Regardless of whatever equivalence you’re trying to make: the US is never going to sanction itself.

I meant the EU, since we are talking in the context of Europe.

The EU also tends to look less kindly on military support for the expansion of the Russian empire than military support for European states' self defence. If you're having trouble processing why, a map of Europe may be handy...

There's no empire with current Russia. They have Belarus and stir a few nearby regions. It is just a fascist state angry it can't have more.

There's no shortage of aspiration to have the empire though, which is why we're talking about a war in Ukraine and why Poland, the Baltics and Moldova take a much more favourable view of sending weapons to Ukraine than sending them to Russia...

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