A court in Moscow has for the first time ordered Yandex to block access to maps and photographs of the infrastructure of one of Russia’s largest oil refineries due to the threat of attacks by Ukrainian drones.
Russia has the world’s fourth-largest reserves of rare earth metals, which they’re struggling to exploit due to lack of technology. China is the number one global supplier, and has all of the tech. I think they would very much like control of all their mines.
Actually taking the territory? Well, then you’d just have to look after tens of millions of poverty-stricken, barely-literate russians in the east of the country. Seeing russia reduced to economic ruin by the war in Ukraine, and then taking control of all their industry and being able to operate russia as a puppet state? Well, that sounds more like a long-term plan.
Russia has the world’s fourth-largest reserves of rare earth metals, which they’re struggling to exploit due to lack of technology. China is the number one global supplier, and has all of the tech. I think they would very much like control of all their mines.
Actually taking the territory? Well, then you’d just have to look after tens of millions of poverty-stricken, barely-literate russians in the east of the country. Seeing russia reduced to economic ruin by the war in Ukraine, and then taking control of all their industry and being able to operate russia as a puppet state? Well, that sounds more like a long-term plan.
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