Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "Lex Clips"
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@RandomBb56 "How the hell do you think China has that huge territory." Typically, China grows when someone on the fringe of China takes over China and then declares all of its territory to now be China. This was the case with the First Emperor whose power base was on the far western fringe.
There have been some exceptions to this. The Han expanded into Korea and Vietnam, but those territories were withdrawn from by the time the Tang took control. Taiwan became part of China when Ming loyalists fled Qing conquest and then became an un-ignorable nuisance as a pirate haven, which led the Qing to take the island in the seventeenth century. Tibet, Xinjiang and Mongolia all became part of China when the Mongols conquered it. These regions lost Chinese identity under the Ming, but were brought back into the fold by the Manchu conquerors—the aforementioned Qing. When the Qing collapsed and China was divided by warlords, two of whom were Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tsedong, China lost control of everything. They finally got it all back, except for Outer Mongolia and Tibet, at the end of World War Two, but the Chinese Civil War was still going on. Once Chiang's forces fled to Taiwan and the U.S. Navy made it clear that the communists were not going to be allowed to cross (China can thank Korea for that re-prioritization), China reestablished its control of Tibet. A few years later, the young Dalai Lama (or more accurately his courtiers and handlers) revolted unsuccessfully and ended up fleeing Potala Palace and establishing a government in exile in India.
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@smartwulf918 I've heard it suggested that Russia's request for North Korean ammunition was made to mirror NATO's request for South Korean ammunition, and was meant as a message to NATO and to South Korea saying that "We have allies too, y'know."
Russia's arms production, including artillery shells, appears to be keeping up with their needs. I do recognize that North Korea is a much less prestigious ally then, let's say, Germany or Poland, but I think they may be more reliable.
It may well be that my sources are not optimal, most of the sources I'm hearing this information from are biased towards Russia. But the Western sources that still continue to promote a failing Russia narrative at this point are pretty much pure propaganda, and much less reliable, at least as far as this contest is concerned.
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