Originally Posted by
Dragonman
1. Your thinking is faulty, as Russia threatens other nuclear powers with nuclear war (e.g., France, the US and the UK) if/when it loses the war with Ukraine. What Russia threatens, the PRC can.
2. The PRC has 1.412 billion people and the Russian Federation has 143 million. Society's needs come before those of the individual in the PRC (e.g., the PRC executes more people than the rest of the world combined each year) and it would not put the lives of citizens before the needs of the CPC. History demonstrates this, e.g., Mao Zedong's so-called "Great Leap Forward" from 1959/1960–1962, coupled with the people's commune and Four Pests campaigns, resulted in an estimated 15–55 million people dying of starvation during the "Great Chinese Famine" (Chinese: 三年大饥荒; literally 'three years of great famine'), more than any other single famine in recorded human history, or almost 10 times the death toll in Stalin's Holodomor. In the PRC, as in the USSR, people are dispensable.