Posted on 02/27/2023 9:10:33 PM PST by House Atreides
On the border of the Odessa region and the Dnieper Moldavian Republic (PMR), the situation is still tense. Ukrainian formations were deployed along the territory with the PMR and set up tent camps for units.
▪️From the environs of Odessa and the Nikolaev region, additional personnel of an unidentified unit were transferred. Now at least one battalion with armored vehicles is located 40 kilometers from Kolbasnoye .
▪️For the first time in recent months, a satellite constellation of NATO countries has filmed objects of the Russian army in Dubossary , Krasnaya Gorka and Vladimirovka in Transnistria. Eight photographs were taken, while during last year's escalation, only the situation in Kolbasnoye was monitored.
▪️To the north of Kolbasnoye, reconnaissance groups of foreign mercenaries are actively operating, mainly from citizens of English-speaking countries. DRG conduct air reconnaissance of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in the PMR.
🔻More and more Ukrainian formations are being pulled to the border with the PMR, and the intelligence of Western countries is using a satellite constellation to assess the capabilities of the Russian garrison in Transnistria.
At the moment , there are no prerequisites for a partial de-escalation. By all indications, the Ukrainian command, under pressure from foreign curators , is preparing a military operation in the PMR.
▪️At the same time, the information and psychological operations authorities of Ukraine are conducting mass disinformation of the population of the PMR in local chats.
They spread information about the need to revise relations with Russia and try to popularize the image of Ukraine in the eyes of Pridnestrovians.
▪️The reason for the attack is the opportunity to get rid of the Russian contingent in Transnistria once and for all and along the way to solve the issue of shell hunger - the warehouses in Kolbasnoye have stocks of ammunition for arming Soviet models.
▪️In addition, this will allow Russia to be pricked in the region where it will be extremely difficult for it to protect its own population. We have already said that in the current configuration, the only adequate response would be the use of tactical nuclear weapons on an uninhabited area as a deterrent.
Of course, you can destroy the Odessa port and all the ships going there, and hope for a positive outcome. However, an attack on Transnistria will not stop this in any way.
🔻Western "partners" are trying with all their might to provoke the Russian leadership into a radical response, since for them such a scenario would be the most acceptable option for the development of the Ukrainian conflict.
I do recommend this YouTube channel as he periodically comes up with valid information that I don’t see elsewhere.
They Wouldn’t Really Go Nuclear, Would They?
by Jeff Thomas
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In 2014, the US funded a coup d’état in Ukraine, ejecting the democratically elected president and installing an American puppet. The new regime then set about attacking the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, which were predominantly Russian. Russia did not intervene, even though the US was messing in Russia’s “back yard.” It did, however, draw some “red lines,” warning the Ukrainian government in Kiev that if it tried to take Crimea, join NATO, or become a nuclear state, Russia would invade.
In February 2022, Ukrainian puppet-President Zelensky announced at the Munich Security Conference that Ukraine would go nuclear. That was the trigger that caused Russia to invade Ukraine, days later. The US declared outrage and sought to involve NATO in retaliation. The American media was filled with angry reports of the “unprovoked invasion,” stating that Russia’s goal was to seize all of Europe.
Since that time, the US media have maintained a constant barrage of propaganda regarding the war. The theme is always the same: The Russians are a murderous army, killing civilians and bombing hospitals and schools. But they are also incompetent, poorly led, their troops riddled with deserters, losing battle after battle, and experiencing far more casualties than the Ukrainians.
And yet, even though the Russians are claimed every day on the news to be losing badly, somehow, they have continued to advance. Kiev has been continually desperate for more from NATO in order to survive, and the US and other countries never seem to be offering enough materiel, advisors and funding for Ukraine to win.
Eventually, rumors began to leak out of Ukraine: Their casualties are eight to Russia’s one. The seasoned Ukrainian troops have been decimated. Kiev is barely surviving with green conscripts, outside contractors and depleting resources. Meanwhile, Russia has built up a force of over 500,000 fresh troops that are well trained and well-armed with substantial supply lines. A winter campaign is under way that’s expected to make short work of the collapsing Ukrainian defense.
The US has done all it can to appeal to the thirty-nation NATO, but the NATO countries, for the most part, are staying as far away from the fight as possible, not even wanting to provide materiel.
At the beginning of the war, Joe Biden stated, “The idea that we’re going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews, just understand … that’s called ‘World War III.’”
Yet, in January 2023, he announced that the US and Germany would send 45 tanks to Ukraine. It might as well be sending 45 school children with pop guns, as they’d last nearly as long on the field of battle as 45 tanks.
Not only is the US running out of options, but the American people are beginning to realise that they’ve been lied to, and while inflation is raging in the US, the US government is pouring billions into Ukraine. All is not well on the home front.
US leaders have begun to suggest that a “limited nuclear war” might be the one remaining option. This suggests that if the US were to fire a few nuclear missiles, it would scare Russia into throwing in the towel.
The trouble is Russia has the largest number and most advanced nuclear weapons on the planet. The chances of it not retaliating to “limited” nukes are nil. Instead, they’re likely to unleash the full force of their nuclear armaments.
The media has said that the present situation is “unprecedented.” But in fact, this has happened before.
In 1962, it was the Soviets that had the temerity to move into America’s “back yard,” sending missiles to Cuba. The US was as justifiably outraged then as Russia is now.
At that time, President Kennedy called the Joint Chiefs together to advise him. Today, that meeting has been largely forgotten, but it’s important to recall that the joint chiefs unanimously said, in essence, “Press the button immediately. Don’t wait another day.”
Mister Kennedy was alone in the hope that nuclear Armageddon could be avoided. With no other option open to him, he called Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev and asked him to call back the ships that carried the missiles. Mister Khrushchev advised him that his own generals were telling him, too, to push the button immediately.
The two men ignored their respective generals and worked out an agreement in which both sides would de-escalate. Armageddon was avoided by two sane men.
But here we are again, possibly on the brink of Armageddon. All that’s required is for one side to push the button. The missile systems of the other would then respond.
But would anyone actually push the button?
Well, Mister Putin, as formidable as he is, is a pragmatic man and may well respond as well or better than Mister Khrushchev. But the man in the White House is no John Kennedy; he’s a cardboard cutout of a leader. The real decisions in Washington are being made by the Deep State… and it’s running out of options.
Russia holds virtually all the cards: Its economy is expanding. The US sanctions have caused two-thirds of the world to seek new treaties with Russia and China. The new agreement between China and Saudi Arabia will effectively end the petro dollar. And the US is not only broke but in debt beyond the ability to even pay the interest.
The last thing the Deep State wants is a loss of face, leading to a loss of power. And their last hope may well be to bluff that they will go nuclear.
So, if this were to happen, how would it play out?
The sad part is that most people in the west don’t understand that Russia is no longer the Soviet Union of yesterday and has been trying to shake this image as it realized that this type of radical socialism has not gotten them anywhere. But leave it to western misguided journalism, bad policies as well as just as bad diplomacy, all of them hell bent on not letting Russia live it down and forget its rather questionable past. If anything succeeding in driving Russia closer to China, all forgetting that Russia has more in common with the west than it ever will have with China. Instead the west could have been on friendly terms with Russia as well as having them as a valuable trading partner.
Keep in mind, should the Doomsday Clock ever strike 12 midnight you want be around to hear it.
I believe that the Ukraine war was planned to be WWIII
The war vampires like “Cookies” Nuland thirst for more blood.
It’s like when Hitler invaded Czeck and Poland. Did you know he considered parts of those territories rightfully his because they were taken from him after losing WWI? History is repeating itself.
WWIII will increase chances of Biden winning in 2024 with need to add very few fake votes. The turnout will be much smaller.
Zelensky's full speech at Munich Security Conference
He does not threaten to go Nuclear. He only mentions nuclear one time and that's to remind the Budapest agreement signatories that they were supposed to ensure Ukraine's territorial integrity.
And that wasn't the trigger. Russia had already moved it's troops into place and the US already had intelligence that Putin intended to invade.
Just another excuse in Russia's long list of alleged grievances to justify their land grab.
“US leaders have begun to suggest that a “limited nuclear war” might be the one remaining option. This suggests that if the US were to fire a few nuclear missiles, it would scare Russia into throwing in the towel.”
This is news to me. Which of our leaders have suggested a limited nuclear war.
Hmm.
Transnistria is a Russian territory ripe for use by Ukraine as a bargaining chip vs Ukrainian territories held by Russia. A very ancient sort of arrangement.
A legit target it seems to me.
The Russian agitprop re Ukrainian lands is very similar to that of Nazi Germany vis a vis western Poland and the Danzig corridor.
Now is the perfect time to push Russia out of another country where they have set up camp on someone else’s land.
We have some Russian speaking people here in the US. Does that justify sending Russian “peacekeeping” troops to the US to set up a forward base for an eventual invasion?
>> The turnout will be much smaller.
Yeah, but it’s the cities that’ll be nuked... largely ‘rat voter enclaves. Plus there will be a lot of very angry, well-armed citizens that’ll be cleaning up the mess. Not in the mood for the Demonrats’ mail-in and ballot-harvesting shenanigans.
In this scenario I think Biden and his evil marxist cabal would get the thorough curb-stomping they so richly deserve. Cold comfort, though, after he succeeds in destroying much of America.
Remember that Belaurus President Alexander Lukashenko showed the world a Russian invasion map that showed Russian troops advancing into Moldava.
Russia has admitted they have 1,500 soldiers in Transnistria. They are there illegally. If Russia wants to avoid escalation they can get their soldiers out of where they are not wanted and withdraw from Ukraine.
I heard Russia’s A-50 A-WACS plane got blown up in Belarus.
Belarus anti-war protestors taking credit for it.
$500 million up in smoke.
So, now even the Nistria, want to Trans, and go against how nature made them!!! MADNESS! Where will it all end???
Same thing as another poster asked. That’s a very specific claim. Whoever wrote that needs to back it up with primary references or they’re just jackassin’ for effect.
A minor correction and I agree 100%.
I know folks helping out on the Romanian borders with Ukraine.
Mo, there aren’t Ukrainian troop buildups on the borders with Moldova.
The youtube channel seems to be lying.
“And their last hope may well be to bluff that they will go nuclear.”
Putin is the one threatening to go nuclear.
No one else.
Your link is filled with lies
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