They can sign a 50 year deal and stop payment 10 years from now, hopefully thing change for better then.

Agree. I think just like a lot of open ended things happened before, it can be one off, or can be a beginning for a new era. There’s no reason to conclude, but all reason to worry (if you don’t like monarch)

Across the globe, except in China. He’s only brave enough to speak up in counties with free speech apparently.

Unfortunately deal like this, not necessarily in this exact terms, is probably inevitable, and everyone except normal Ukraine people will have some incentive to keep the war going…