Posted on 02/25/2023 3:26:51 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Russian troops have been in Transnistria since 1992 as joint peacekeepers, by treaty with the Moldovan govt, which failed to crush by force, Transnistrian resistance to being integrated into Moldova and eventually, they feared, Rumania. Transnistrians are about equally Russian and Ukrainian speakers that do not choose to be part of Moldova…or Ukraine.
Another sloppy remnant of post-Cold War “political map boundary drawing” that occurred after the breakup of the Soviet Union….trying to force a single political identity on diverse ethnic groups with historic animosities and separatist goals arising from being persecuted
Ukraine has NO legal right or justification to invade Moldova ( which is what Moldovan Pres Sandu wants to call her “ problem”- Transnistria) therefore the Russian bogeyman false flag they are trying to use for cover
Even an idiot can’t find a Russian invasion buildup in 2,000 troops, almost half of which guard a very large arsenal of Soviet era weapons in Colbasna, Transnistria. Kiev’s true objective.
Re #, this was tipped in 2022 when Belarus held a meeting showing a map with invasion forces going into Moldova.
One of the lessons that should be learned from the war in Ukraine on the anniversary of the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation is that the United States has the most expensive military in the world but is totally unprepared to fight a first world power. During the last year we have learned that javelins, stingers and HIMARS are not game changers for Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has exposed the weakness of the U.S. and European military industrial base. NATO has lost its ability to produce essential ammunition required to sustain Ukraine’s needs in the battle and lacks stockpiles of tanks and armored vehicles that Ukraine begs for on a daily basis. The U.S. is no longer the industrial behemoth that churned out tanks, planes, aircraft carriers, destroyers and bombs in the Second World War.
Russia, for its part, continues to steadily advance along the entire 1000 mile front (not as fast as a bunch of arm chair generals want) and is inflicting massive casualties on the Ukrainian forces. At no point since February 2022 has Ukraine been able to mount a counter attack against a numerically equal Russian force. Ukraine’s much ballyhooed offensive from last August/September was against an outnumbered group of military police and Russia managed to effect a professional tactical retreat.
The real game changer is Russia’s industrial base. Russia has the natural resources, the factories and the skilled workers to produce the weapons, vehicles, tanks and planes it needs to sustain its forces in the field. The Biden Administration, the media and the pundits in America fail to grasp this reality. Instead they continue to repeat the lie that Russia’s economy is in tatters and drowning under the weight of U.S. sanctions.
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t is true that U.S. forces took control in 2003 of sizeable chunks of Iraq and occupied Baghdad. But the Iraqi Army lacked air power and effective artillery. Yee haw!! America beat up the kid in a wheel chair. Let us not forget that the United States’ policies in Iraq also spawned a deadly insurgency and led to the birth of ISIS, which carried out epic terrorist attacks in Europe, the Middle East and America. Iraq displayed the impotence of U.S. military power to create a stable political order.
I really question the intelligence of a person who touts the “U.S. rolling over the Taliban and Al Qaeda in 2001 – 2002” and blithely ignores the U.S. ignominious defeat in Afghanistan in August 2021. The Taliban that we supposedly vanquished took back Kabul and forced the United States into a panicked withdrawal. Oh yeah. The U.S. abandoned thousands of Afghans who we had promised previously to protect.
And then there is the ghost of Vietnam. “We won every major engagement against the Vietnamese communists.” So what! Killing Viet Cong in the jungles and mountains did not prevent the North Vietnamese from sweeping down and vanquishing the South Vietnamese government. Here again, U.S. military power was impotent to create a political outcome that served U.S. national interests.
Most Americans indulge the fantasy that if we just use more military force (i.e., more cowbell). This insanity continues to posses the political class controlling Washington and they show no sign of relenting in their quest to destroy Vladimir Putin and magically transform Russia into a lackey of the West. That is what is at stake in Russia’s war in Ukraine and the majority of the Russian people, not just the political and military leaders, understand this threat.
We are witnessing the end of the era when the strength of the U.S. economy and its control of the world economy via the petro dollar enabled Washington to pursue its reckless, multiple overseas military expeditions.
There's no need for that. Just untie hands of the Ukes. They could easily destroy the rus nazi forces in Trans. Just like they could easily advance north of Kharkov. There's nothing there. I'm not talking about taking Belogrod but just send 1 brigade on a quick 20km drive through proper russia to go around rus nazi defense lines in temporarily occupied areas and show up at their back causing panic there. That should enable them to regain some territory at low price.
Do both of these things and rus nazi will go crazy. They will either try to reinforce Trans by sea, ending up like Moskva or launch unprepared frontal assaults losing 5 to 1.
But the Ukes can't do that because Biden and all “fear escalation”. How the hell can you escalate the full scale war. Will rus nazis nuke America or Europe because the Ukes attacked the Trans ? That's nonsense.
“Ukraine has NO legal right or justification to invade Moldova”
They have God given right to eliminate rus nazi forces wherever they are.
“The real game changer is Russia’s industrial base.”
You dudes have overdone the Baghdad Bob already. The rus industrial base is smaller than that of Italy.
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You might be able to beat one strong country, but if a couple strong countries ever got together, we would lose.
The end result as planed Biden takes bait.
Moldova already has a joint peacekeeping mission there, with Russia, by a treaty both nations signed
Transnistra is a small isolated outpost surrounded by nationaiists hostile to the half million residents of Transnistra
But if Kiev keeps poking, they may remind the Bear that Odessa is Russian and cannot be left in the hands of fascists like those who burned the Trade Union occupants
Yeah, let the Z rus nazi pigs murder them because a tiny part of their grandfather generation chose Hitler over Stalin.
“But if Kiev keeps poking, they may remind the Bear”
That’s not any Bear but a rus nazi pig, filthy, drunk and retarded.
“ Ukraine and Moldova should conduct a joint Special Military Operation to de-Nazify Transnistria.”
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Sure. But, IF THEY DO, should the American globalists immediately INSTITUTE BROAD SANCTIONS ON UKRAINE and anyone or any nation that supplies it with resources or weapons? And OF COURSE IMMEDIATELY CEASE ANY AND ALL DELIVERY OF MILITARY SUPPLIES to THE AGGRESSOR UKRAINIANS. You wouldn’t want to be accused of BEING A HYPOCRITE or wanting DIUBLE STANDARDS.
While Russia and the West go at it, China is biding its time.
The West isn’t going at anyone.
Something good is that the West has gotten back into thinking about war and are increasing their military budgets and firing up the factories and clearing out old stock to make room for the new, and having discussions about what they are learning while watching Russia going at it against Ukraine.
Moldova has a right to oust or exterminate the Russian occupiers and they have a right to ask Ukraine for help doing so.
The small Russian forces in Transnistria are there based on a peacekeeping treaty signed by Moldova and Russia over 10 years ago.
Reading is hard.
Russia is threatening to invade and annex Moldova. They have abrogated their treaty just as they abrogate so many others.
Wow… EXTERMINATION! Aren’t you the sweetheart! I’m guessing that you feel the people of Transnistria (who consider themselves to be independent) are subhumans and have no rights. Has Transnistria INVADED Ukraine? Is Transnistria shelling Ukraine?
Has your soul always been evil or is this a recent cancerous development? And that is a serious question.
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