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China may have stopped Putin from using nuclear weapons, Blinken says (kyivindependent.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/news

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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@schizoidman highly likely imo. Nuclear weapons are generally a sensitive thing for all the countries that have them. Perhaps they did not want to set a precedent or something, or maybe China's businesses in Europe would have been affected if a nuclear explosion occurred anywhere on the continent.

Who knows...

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

I think China is just in full facepalm mode about how shockingly incompetent the Russians are and assume that they will fuck up such a delicate situation like strategic dick waving.