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Why Moldova fears it could be next for Putin
CNN.com ^ | February 26, 2023 | Rob Picheta

Posted on 02/26/2023 5:10:51 AM PST by Timber Rattler

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To: USA-FRANCE
If Moldavia is taken by Russia, Romania won’t let that happen. They will go all in defending their Moldavian brothers - they have no choice. Romania being part of NATO, this means all NATO will be forced to follow up.

Romania attacking another country doesn’t trigger any NATO provision that would compel the other NATO members to join in the conflict.

41 posted on 02/26/2023 9:58:56 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: Kazan

Spam much, Comrade Kazan?


42 posted on 02/26/2023 10:46:33 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

When Trump becomes the nominee in 2024 are you planning on disappearing?


43 posted on 02/26/2023 1:46:34 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Kazan

False assumption. Trump won’t be the nominee.


44 posted on 02/26/2023 2:12:49 PM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: newfreep

“Ukraine is massively corrupt - moreso than Russia
obamatollah & PedoJoe took the money laundering & corruption to new heights.”

This is not about ukraine it is about Russia. even if the Ukraine were3 what you say it is Russia is still the threat.


45 posted on 02/26/2023 3:09:22 PM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: JonPreston

“When are you leaving for the front?”

Since you are the one who supports Putin when are you going to fight for Russia?


46 posted on 02/26/2023 3:11:37 PM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: amnestynone

Make love, not war.


47 posted on 02/26/2023 3:24:17 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: Timber Rattler

#NeverTrump


48 posted on 02/26/2023 3:25:27 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

“Make love, not war.”

Knowing you I bet you are going to corn hole with Putin.


49 posted on 02/26/2023 3:35:07 PM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: amnestynone
...even if the Ukraine were3 what you say it is...

IF?!!!

Good grief, are you REALLY that stupid?

50 posted on 02/26/2023 3:36:54 PM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: amnestynone

Hush, Neocon.


51 posted on 02/26/2023 3:41:16 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: Timber Rattler
"Roll over, Moldova. Give Zelensky the news."


52 posted on 02/26/2023 3:48:01 PM PST by x
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https://sonar21.com/when-it-comes-to-ukraine-the-united-states-intel-community-is-confusing-pyrite-with-genuine-gold/

Although both Ukrainian and British officials insist that Russia is running out of weapons and ammunition, the war in Ukraine has revealed that the U.S. and Europe, not Russia, no longer have the ability to produce artillery shells, rockets and missiles on a scale that permits them to supply Ukraine while maintaining robust stocks at home:

“The first thing on the list was, everywhere, the ammunition,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said.

“If you have the equipment and you don’t have the ammunition, then it’s no use,” the Estonian leader told reporters on Friday.

And while Ukraine is in dire need of vast amounts of ammo to keep fighting, Western countries’ own stocks are running low.

“It’s a very real concern,” said Ben Hodges, a former commander of U.S. Army Europe. “None of us, including the United States, is producing enough ammunition right now,” he said in a phone interview on Sunday.

I will reiterate a point I have made in previous articles — Russia is not dependent on Western resources to produce its weapons and Russia has a robust, intact defense industry that is working 24-7 to produce ammunition, shells, rockets, tanks, vehicles for its military forces.

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Even though Russia is at war with the United States and NATO, it is still capable of sending, on an emergency basis with little prior warning, an unmanned space craft to the International Space Station to rescue two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut. The United States still indulges the fantasy that it is the technological leader of the world but it does not have the ability to do what the Russians accomplished this week. Just saying.

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I think it is only a matter of time before this house of cards crashes to the ground and the search for a scapegoat will ensue to determine “who lost Ukraine.” You can be sure of one thing — no senior official responsible for this debacle will be held accountable. Some mid-level careerist will get the shaft or, perhaps, Donald Trump will be blamed. History teaches a critical lesson — a government built on a foundation of lies will not endure. The Soviets and the Russian people learned this the hard way in 1991. I believe a comparable day of reckoning is coming for the United States and Europe.

53 posted on 02/26/2023 8:34:25 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Timber Rattler

You must like being wrong.


54 posted on 02/26/2023 9:02:53 PM PST by Kazan
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To: thegagline

It doesn’t trigger it automatically, I agree.
But imagine the extreme situation where Romania has no other choice than to intervene, helping its Moldavian brothers under Russian attack... a NATO country at war with Russia is nothing to sneeze at... THAT is quite an escalation...
From that point anything is possible. Thats why I said that the chances for WWIII at that point are 50/50.


55 posted on 02/28/2023 11:14:14 AM PST by USA-FRANCE
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To: DownInFlames

It doesn’t trigger it automatically, I agree.
But imagine the extreme situation where Romania has no other choice than to intervene, helping its Moldavian brothers under Russian attack... a NATO country at war with Russia is nothing to sneeze at... THAT is quite an escalation...
From that point anything is possible. Thats why I said that the chances for WWIII at that point are 50/50.


56 posted on 02/28/2023 11:16:17 AM PST by USA-FRANCE
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