Ukraine Gives Kursk Residents a Clear Choice: Russia or Refuge

News channel CNN reported that Ukrainians are ready to accept refugees from the Kursk region, which has been captured by the Ukrainian army. However, they also allow people to move to areas still under Russian control.

This idea is excellent, as it provides a way to gauge the satisfaction of the people in the Kursk region with Putin's administration. And if it so happens that many people from Kursk decide to move to Ukraine, it would demonstrate to the whole world the incompetence of Putin's administration towards Russia's own citizens. 

At the same time, it would also be a shameful humiliation for the president himself. So let's wait and see how many people from Kursk take advantage of the opportunity offered by Ukraine, and how many believe they will receive better treatment in Russia.

Apart from that, it's great that the Ukrainians have once again managed to make the operational capabilities of the Russian army a laughingstock. After all, this is supposedly a superpower army, according to the Russians themselves.

This is despite the fact that, in recent days, it has managed to be the second most successful military force operating in Russia. Right after the Ukrainians.

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Could China take advantage on the weakness of Putin´s Russia?

The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs has asked China to offer Ukraine security guarantees. The request was reported also in Chinese media with critical comments on Russian´s military activities in Ukraine. 

China has thus far been notably neutral in the conflict. The request by Ukrainians, however, put them to a new situation, where all decisions can be interpreted as support to either of the sides.

Russia is an important neighbor to China, but economically insignificant compared to the western world. That would not change even if Chinese could take advantage on the Russian´s blockade from international trade, and use them almost imperialistically as a source of cheap raw materials.

Thus, the Chinese leaders are now in a position, where they are forced to make decisions. And most interestingly, one option for them might be to drive Russian economy so down, that they could ultimately negotiate about the position of the borders between China and Russia. After all, China had to give Russians large areas in peace negotiations around year 1860 - and they have not forgotten that. 

If so, that would be the final step in the loss of Putin´s dream to become a significant Russian  leader comparable to Peter I the Great or Josef Stalin. Instead, he would be remembered as one of the most notable losers in the Russian history.

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