[simne]

> China hasn’t invaded anyone for decades

Do you know history? There where at least two big open struggles - against USSR and against India. Also there where lot of hidden interventions - to Vietnam, to Korea, to Afghanistan, where China don't look as main hero, but without their intervention, world will be totally different.

For example, without China intervention, we wouldn't have North Korea; probably capitalist South Vietnam would have survived and would be very strong player on world markets; we wouldn't have Taliban, which destroyed civilization level historical monuments; etc.

[trasz]

I don’t have a problem with “struggles”; every country has those. What I do have a problem with is wars. As in, when actual people die.

Without US we wouldn’t have North Korea either - the only reason it exists is that this prevents US from placing military bases there. Taliban was literally funded and trained by CIA; not sure what Chinese involvement was?

[simne]

You have very strange look on history.

North Korea appears because of Russian intervention, lead by Joseph Stalin.

Taliban was toy movement, nothing serious, before Russian intervention to Afghanistan in 1978.

You should understand one thing - US, Britain, France, even modern Germany are really strong players, but Russia after 1917 becomes small player with inadequate ambitions, so Russia could not play solo. And because of this, Russia constantly tried to break games of strong players, or as it named now - they try to break world game.

US after WWII becomes something what Russian named world gendarme (this is direct translation), so US have to spend resources and send military to other parts of world, to keep peace there.

BTW answer question (yes, this is test) - why do you think, mostly US military was in Yugoslavia (center of Europe), not European?

[trasz]

I’m not talking about why North Korea was created in the first place - I’m talking about why it’s still there.

As for Russia or Yugoslavia - you are doing the same thing Putin’s shills like to do, which is changing the subject. We were talking about China.

[simne]

It is impossible to understand, why North Korea still exists, without understanding, why it is appear - these things tightly coupled, unfortunately.

[hungryhobo]

are you really gonna pin Taliban on the chinese? I'm sorry but your version of history isn't actually accurate either.

[simne]

BTW I found exact quote from Sherlock Holmes: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

[simne]

Have you read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? I mean Sherlock Holmes.

I become fan of these books unfortunately after phenomenal Russian series (unfortunately, because Vasily Livanov, who played Holmes, in last years become involved in Russian politics, and was supporter of Putin course, even when all respectable intelligent people began to criticize).

So, Sir Arthur, said by mouth of his heroes - if you see something, which could not explain by common sense, that is - you just have opportunity, to see another or NEW reality.

In this new reality, Russia is small country, which have not enough resources to compete with big players, but Russia have huge ambitions. So what it have to do? - It switches to espionage, to propaganda, to support terrorists. What it got with such activities? - It make active interference for Western policies, and like child, happy that so small, but have success breaking activities of adults.

Sure, my version is not accurate, but reality is cruel - just cup days after US left Afghanistan, Russian authorities said on official channels, that they will try to find common language to speak with Taliban leaders.

You may ask, where is China in this equation? Ok, are you really sure, that Russian have not speak about this with Chinese authorities before such statement?

- Look on map, where is China, where is Afghanistan. - Look in wikipedia, compare sizes of economy and military of Russia and China. - Look for Russia-China economy relations in news, look who pay and how much.

Are you still sure, Russia could make independent from China statements in such circumstances?