• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    There are a lot of economic ties between Mongolia and Russia. You don’t get a lot of options when you’re landlocked and sandwiched between two large powers. So, Putin has a fair amount of leverage there, more than in most places.

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Their army size and military spending is a fraction of Russia’s, plus economic ties and nukes existing. Although now would be probably one of the best times to go against Russia militarily, since they’re stretched pretty thin at the moment, I doubt Mongolia would be the one to do it.

  • DrownedRats@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Because the potential cost to them doesn’t out weigh the benefits (or potential costs) they get from adhering to the ICC regulations.

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      Yes, in terms of military strength they would just be a rounding error. Even the Russian army could take on mongolia. Less than 200k military (35k active, the rest reserve) and a budget around 200 million.

      Mongolia is huuuuuuge with only 3.5 million people.

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    16 days ago

    I hope that all the signee states of the ICC treaty will call in their Mongolian Ambassador and make it clear in no uncertain terms that this might lead to other agreements and contracts with Mongolia might be at stake.