The Russian bluff: Russian military in decline

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Skybird

China will NOT aggressively launch a war of attack to conquer an obvious part of Russia. They do it differently. Since many years they are sending settlers into these vast empty lands, shifting the demographic balance and "outbreeding" the Russian natives. Where in past years the economic patterns saw Chinese tresspassing the borders to trade on the russian side, today, fewer and poorer russians travel the other way to trade on the chinese side. This signals that the income of local Russians also has seen a dramatic decline. The decreasing economic perspectives, addtional to the Chinese settling, bring many Russians to a point were they leave these regions voluntary to try their luck elsewhere. So, it compares a bit to the chinese settlement program in Tibet, or Islams land-taking in europe by colonization in europe. In a way it means to wage war by using the innocence of families, simple men, their wifes and children as the weapon to fire. You either massacre them, or you loose - takes just more time, but it is a very robust strategy. So far noboby has firgured out how to counter it with "civilised" measures.

Once the population aböance has decisevly chnaged and demographic facts are created, it then is possible to imagien that china eventually - eventually - will take military action to defend these Chinese communities and the land they have taken in case Russia tries to drive them back by force.

Crap, that sounds like the boarder with Mexico . I'm not too savy on Chinese history, have they every aggresively expanded their boundries (by force)? I know China has spent a good portion of it's time fighting off invaders.