The purpose behind publishing their report is to inform the Western public of Sandu’s alleged plans, signal that Russia isn’t interested in sparking a conflict there (no matter how she might spin its response to her potential provocations in Transnistria), and indirectly encourage her patrons to stop her.
Pragmatically, should Russia take command of all the main supply routes into Kyiv and knock out anything going in or out, AFU forces would be unable to re-supply, leaving them vulnerable to running low on ammunition forcing Ukraine to abdicate.
Russia could pierce through AFU defensive lines, control and attack with air and artillery support whatever moves on main highways into Kyiv, with forces at the ready to counter any attempt by AFU forces to link up. Whatever money is spent on weapons by NATO would be fruitless because you can't just print weapons into the field of battle. They must be mobilized.
Time matters for Russia to do something before AFU forces attempt to build a new army. Lowering the draft age in Ukraine would become meaningless without a supply of weapons if Russia took the initiative. Neutralize Ukraine's ability to have the war material it needs to prolong the fight and con Russia into settling for a lesser deal.
The only way to de-nazify Ukraine is to kill its ability to sustain itself. A strategic offensive to cut off Kyiv by controlling the major highways into it could force Ukraine to abdicate. Then Putin should warn NATO that if they enter Ukraine counter to the UN charter they will be obliterated since Russia controls all the main supply lines where what goes in never makes it out. So who wants to attack first?
It is time for the coup de grace Russian checkmate of Ukraine for all the right reasons and there is no nice way to go about it.
I have read that Russia has been compromised by Zionist elements within its government. Some say Putin is Zio. Apparently, these Zios are connected to Western Zios with common ideological and financial interests. This could explain the pockets of opposition by some Russian citizens who have spoken out about the enemy within its borders controlling its government and its lack of resolve to defeat Ukraine. Something doesn't fit. Any ideas here, Feral?
The Russian leadership do not want to make war on what they still think of as their misguided brothers in Ukraine.
Nor do they want to make war on the West - they want to be allowed to join it, and refuse to admit to themselves that, no matter how reasonable they act, the West sees this, not as humanitarianism, but as contemptible weakness, that, no matter how many symphonies and novels they write, the West hates and fears them, that Russia never will be allowed to join The Club, The Golden Billion.
This is a real problem for Russia. If Transnistria comes under threat, they will have to secure the complete Black Sea coast, along with Odessa. Ukraine (more importantly the “west”) won’t be happy with having the Black Sea isolated.
It’s one thing to abandon military outposts in Syria, but there are ethnic Russians, isolated in Transnistria. It’s a geographic aberration, but I don’t see Putin abandoning Russian citizens again.
At least Transdnistria already has Russian military there and I am sure the Transdnistrians themselves are preparing for this conflict. Like everybody else, they are being swept into this war cauldron that was inevitable when NATO decided to turn what should have been neutral territory into its weapons platforms. I think most of us see what is so clearly emerging: an all-front push by NATO, fearful of Trump, to provoke the Russians at every point in hopes of some miracle, like Assad! (Of course, the same groups that ran out Assad -- MI6 and CIA -- are also running the oppo in the targeted countries such as Georgia.) They will only succeed in starting a war they can't control.
also, Russia is headed to Odessa. It will control that area, not Ukraine or NATO. I have been sure of this since the start, when it was clear that NATO had engineered this conflict.
Recently there are reports of Russian preparation to cross the Dnieper River and retake Kherson. Perhaps this is preparation for a deeper strike against Odesa and ultimately form a road to Transnistria.
Boobless Davos globalist prostitute is a big factor in the region, she can join Azov regiment and fight Putin. Cut them off and let enjoy " Rules based order "
Romania was founded by the colonisation of Dacia by Italic Roman settlers and various other subject nationalities of the Roman Empire, for furnishing a bread basket to the Italian heartland and also affording strategic depth to Rome vis a vis potential adventurists from the Kipchak and Bulgar steppes in what was then Scythia and is now Ukraine and Russia. Cultural and ethnological amalgamation gave birth to a new nation, heavily Romanicised in taste and etiquette though. It is a fact that the Roman aristocracy had scant respect for human life outside of their narrow cabal, as evidenced from their obsessive penchant for gladiatorial amphitheatres where captive humans were set aight to mark the imposing entrance facade in place of what we have today in form of lamp posts and decorative pylons. But despite the most concerted push made by Roman Legionaries armed with rust
-proof South Indian steel sabres, modern-day Transnistria and Pridnishtrovie formed roughly the watershed beyond which Italic Latino colonists or their Thracian subordinates never really made any headway. The region beyond remained Slavic in its pristine glory. At the time of the most aggressive Roman attempts at pincer incursion into Transnistria, Aryan steelsmiths from Kangra in Himalayan reaches of India managed to despatch a huge consignment of rust free Northern Indian swords and spears to the Slavic defenders of Transnistria to match the sabres sourced by Rome from Dravidian merchants based in South India, via a very precarious overland journey fraught with plenteous mortal risks. This, however, is not to say that modern Romania is any less of a bonafide nation in its own right than say, Ireland. However, the Slavs of Transnistria, call them Russians if you will, are in their pristine ancestral homeland, and the Roman world does not have any rights of ownership over them. They are a civilisation separate from Rome, Italy and the Latin world !
Just to clarify the "deep state", scholars such as Aaron Good and Peter Dale Scott have described the Deep State as the part of the 'tri-partite' state that is unelected and holds immense political power. The tripartite state is composed of the surface government of elected and unelected bureaucrats, the 'security state', such as the military and intelligence agencies, and the oligarchs of business and crime. Our Deep State is simply those aspects of government that the public can neither observe nor control, but that actually prescribe and enforce policy that preserves or enhances modern neoliberal financial capitalism.
From some other articles and documentaries I have seen on this, Esienhower didn't know, but admitting that it would have looked even worst than it was. Plus Wiki is not that a reliable source. I posted the link because was the first popping up, to give the gist of it, but it doesn't have the sordid details...
Good to know. I am always willing to re-adjust if evidence is provided. Showing that the whole establishment in the US was and likely is anti-Russian... Not because Russia ever was a threat to the US...
Romania should be careful joining any military confrontation on Moldova’s side. It gives RU an excuse to bomb RO (along with nato bases, infrastructure , etc).
Is that a good reason enough for Russia to start a war with NATO...? Romania is in NATO, you know that... Moldova is not part of Russia, neither Transdnistria and the ethnic Russians in both of those places are not actually persecuted...
Now, now. By international law, and given that even Moscow recognizes that Transdnitria is part of Republic of Moldova, this would be an internal problem, no? Even if Sandu's excuses are not only lame but outright stupid, and unbelievable. She doesn't need excuses in fact to re-establish Chisinau's control over Transdnistria.
And the claim that R of Moldova is part and parcel of Roumanian cultural and historical space is not a claim, it is a fact, no matter how much Maria Zakharova, who's expertise is in Sinology, would like to be otherwise.
RSS Moldova was the stain on the USSR face, since it was taken from the flesh of another country, which became a socialist country itself. So, in order to resolve this conundrum, that would have obliged the Soviet Union to relinquish that ethnic group to where it belonged, but still in the big socialist brotherhood, they invented a new ethnicity, different from the general Romanian ethnicity.
The question is, what would Russia do if Moldova and Romania re-unite, overnight, and take over Transdnistria (this would be only fair since Northern Bucovina and Budgeac and Snake Island went to Ukraine)? Why would that be a "defeat" for Russia and not a restoration of justice? Next thing I would like to see is US troops being kicked out of S Korea and the two Koreas reunited.
However, for the sake of overall peace, I would prefer peace if the price of the re-unification of Romanians were to be a generalized war. But that, that would be Russia's fault. Because Moldova is not Russky Mir. Never was and never will be.
1. That's misleading since it ignores Russia's right to retaliate in response to possible attacks against its peacekeepers.
2. Again, misleading: while factually true, it implies territorial claims that not all Romanian-descended Moldovans are comfortable with.
3. Sure, you can think that, but that's not relevant to the question of whether or not Sandu might launch an attack against Transnistria that could draw in Russia and Romania.
4. It's unclear what it would do, it might withdraw from Transnistria, or it might stay put and defend its troops there. This uncertainty is why nothing of the sort has yet happened.
5. You sound angry about something and it appears that you're using me and my article as a strawman for sounding off. If that's the case, then I won't continue the discussion.
1. Sorry, it is not peacekeepers, but occupation forces, like US were in Syria propping the Kurds.
2. A majority of them or just some, even a plurality? Also, let us not forget the 70 years of gaslighting of Moldovan population performed by the Soviets and then continued by Russia, that Moldovans are not Romanians. Now that was truly Russian propaganda.
3. Sandu's decision to attack or not will definitely not be just "her" decission. She will be just the cat's paw. It depends also how far down the path of contingencies such a plan and preparations and resources are alocated to it.
4. This uncertainity is also steming from the fact that, as opposed to the Ukrainian situation, the Russian and Ukrainian speaking population in Moldova has not been persecuted. Cannot sell this as well to the Global South. Given the precedent of keeping Moldovans separated from their Moldovan bretherns from Romania and the rest of Romanians separated for that long, especially since there were no ideological reasons (like the two Germanies or the two Koreas) to do that.
5. I am not angry at all, quite calm, albeit in two minds. Considering myself a Romanian patriot, I do wish for re-unification (and yes, I do know the many ills of Romanian polity and especially the bad habits of the political class there) seeing it as an act of historical justice. On the other hand I don't want a third world war to start because of it, while I also want Russia to win in Ukraine which is the anvil on which western oligarchic hegemony is being cracked. The other anvil where the US power will be finally shattered will be Taiwan.
Let us not forget the 70 years of gaslighting of Moldovan population performed by the Soviets and then continued by Russia, that Moldovans are not Romanians. Now that was truly Russian propaganda.
Compared to that, what is a bit of vote rigging, eh?!
Yeah Sandu was rigging the vote for the right reaosns at least. Stupid ass Moldavians falling for Russian propaganda like Americans did 2016 and letting themselves get tricked into not voting for Sandu. I blame Brezhnev and the Russian troops stationed in Transnistria against the will of the Romanian government. Or Moldavan Government. Whoever. But definitely not the Moldavan people who according to you are too stupid to vote for the correct pro Western candidates.
I did not call Moldovans stupid. Most of the people would rather die than to think. And shaking off imprints since infancy is really hard.
Personally I would love Romania to be neutral, me also being imprinted with Ceusescu's words, "for a Romania free, independent and sovereign, etc, etc, etc...". These have the right ring to them and this is why Calin Georgescu got first in the first round of Romanian Presidential elections.
I am very much against the globalist plutocracy pushed onto the world by the US.
Romanians do not care for Transdnistria except as a payback for North Bucovina, Budgeac and Snake Island taken by Russians in 1940 and given to Ukraine after WWII.
It doesn't make sense at all. What the game might be, with all this sound and fury is to somehow shift the focus on the idea that it is Russia's fault. Same way German Chancellor kept repeating that Russia cut the gas to NS1&2...
She can't go all by herself. Also, Russians cannot bring more troops there. Can only use missiles. Boots on the ground is what matters...
The final lines will be drawn and Russians will be kicked out of Transdnistria. Unless there is no ready peace negotiated with the US and Russia goes and takes Odessa. But if that will look likely to happen, US might help take Transdnistria first. A ready scenario for involving NATO can be created in 3 days, by Romanian and Moldovan Parliaments voting the reunification...
Pragmatically, should Russia take command of all the main supply routes into Kyiv and knock out anything going in or out, AFU forces would be unable to re-supply, leaving them vulnerable to running low on ammunition forcing Ukraine to abdicate.
Russia could pierce through AFU defensive lines, control and attack with air and artillery support whatever moves on main highways into Kyiv, with forces at the ready to counter any attempt by AFU forces to link up. Whatever money is spent on weapons by NATO would be fruitless because you can't just print weapons into the field of battle. They must be mobilized.
Time matters for Russia to do something before AFU forces attempt to build a new army. Lowering the draft age in Ukraine would become meaningless without a supply of weapons if Russia took the initiative. Neutralize Ukraine's ability to have the war material it needs to prolong the fight and con Russia into settling for a lesser deal.
The only way to de-nazify Ukraine is to kill its ability to sustain itself. A strategic offensive to cut off Kyiv by controlling the major highways into it could force Ukraine to abdicate. Then Putin should warn NATO that if they enter Ukraine counter to the UN charter they will be obliterated since Russia controls all the main supply lines where what goes in never makes it out. So who wants to attack first?
It is time for the coup de grace Russian checkmate of Ukraine for all the right reasons and there is no nice way to go about it.
Russia should have done this in the first day of the war.
I have read that Russia has been compromised by Zionist elements within its government. Some say Putin is Zio. Apparently, these Zios are connected to Western Zios with common ideological and financial interests. This could explain the pockets of opposition by some Russian citizens who have spoken out about the enemy within its borders controlling its government and its lack of resolve to defeat Ukraine. Something doesn't fit. Any ideas here, Feral?
Nothing so silly is needed.
The Russian leadership do not want to make war on what they still think of as their misguided brothers in Ukraine.
Nor do they want to make war on the West - they want to be allowed to join it, and refuse to admit to themselves that, no matter how reasonable they act, the West sees this, not as humanitarianism, but as contemptible weakness, that, no matter how many symphonies and novels they write, the West hates and fears them, that Russia never will be allowed to join The Club, The Golden Billion.
This is a real problem for Russia. If Transnistria comes under threat, they will have to secure the complete Black Sea coast, along with Odessa. Ukraine (more importantly the “west”) won’t be happy with having the Black Sea isolated.
It’s one thing to abandon military outposts in Syria, but there are ethnic Russians, isolated in Transnistria. It’s a geographic aberration, but I don’t see Putin abandoning Russian citizens again.
At least Transdnistria already has Russian military there and I am sure the Transdnistrians themselves are preparing for this conflict. Like everybody else, they are being swept into this war cauldron that was inevitable when NATO decided to turn what should have been neutral territory into its weapons platforms. I think most of us see what is so clearly emerging: an all-front push by NATO, fearful of Trump, to provoke the Russians at every point in hopes of some miracle, like Assad! (Of course, the same groups that ran out Assad -- MI6 and CIA -- are also running the oppo in the targeted countries such as Georgia.) They will only succeed in starting a war they can't control.
also, Russia is headed to Odessa. It will control that area, not Ukraine or NATO. I have been sure of this since the start, when it was clear that NATO had engineered this conflict.
Recently there are reports of Russian preparation to cross the Dnieper River and retake Kherson. Perhaps this is preparation for a deeper strike against Odesa and ultimately form a road to Transnistria.
Will Putin get a choice?
This will be fun to watch. Revanchist Europe Rampant. I see the statue now, a horse rearing up and throwing off the fool riding it.
Boobless Davos globalist prostitute is a big factor in the region, she can join Azov regiment and fight Putin. Cut them off and let enjoy " Rules based order "
Romania was founded by the colonisation of Dacia by Italic Roman settlers and various other subject nationalities of the Roman Empire, for furnishing a bread basket to the Italian heartland and also affording strategic depth to Rome vis a vis potential adventurists from the Kipchak and Bulgar steppes in what was then Scythia and is now Ukraine and Russia. Cultural and ethnological amalgamation gave birth to a new nation, heavily Romanicised in taste and etiquette though. It is a fact that the Roman aristocracy had scant respect for human life outside of their narrow cabal, as evidenced from their obsessive penchant for gladiatorial amphitheatres where captive humans were set aight to mark the imposing entrance facade in place of what we have today in form of lamp posts and decorative pylons. But despite the most concerted push made by Roman Legionaries armed with rust
-proof South Indian steel sabres, modern-day Transnistria and Pridnishtrovie formed roughly the watershed beyond which Italic Latino colonists or their Thracian subordinates never really made any headway. The region beyond remained Slavic in its pristine glory. At the time of the most aggressive Roman attempts at pincer incursion into Transnistria, Aryan steelsmiths from Kangra in Himalayan reaches of India managed to despatch a huge consignment of rust free Northern Indian swords and spears to the Slavic defenders of Transnistria to match the sabres sourced by Rome from Dravidian merchants based in South India, via a very precarious overland journey fraught with plenteous mortal risks. This, however, is not to say that modern Romania is any less of a bonafide nation in its own right than say, Ireland. However, the Slavs of Transnistria, call them Russians if you will, are in their pristine ancestral homeland, and the Roman world does not have any rights of ownership over them. They are a civilisation separate from Rome, Italy and the Latin world !
Just to clarify the "deep state", scholars such as Aaron Good and Peter Dale Scott have described the Deep State as the part of the 'tri-partite' state that is unelected and holds immense political power. The tripartite state is composed of the surface government of elected and unelected bureaucrats, the 'security state', such as the military and intelligence agencies, and the oligarchs of business and crime. Our Deep State is simply those aspects of government that the public can neither observe nor control, but that actually prescribe and enforce policy that preserves or enhances modern neoliberal financial capitalism.
Aparently this was done without presidential knowledge with the hope to spike a raprochment between US and USSR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident
From some other articles and documentaries I have seen on this, Esienhower didn't know, but admitting that it would have looked even worst than it was. Plus Wiki is not that a reliable source. I posted the link because was the first popping up, to give the gist of it, but it doesn't have the sordid details...
Good to know. I am always willing to re-adjust if evidence is provided. Showing that the whole establishment in the US was and likely is anti-Russian... Not because Russia ever was a threat to the US...
So, what does Russia propose to do about it?
Romania should be careful joining any military confrontation on Moldova’s side. It gives RU an excuse to bomb RO (along with nato bases, infrastructure , etc).
Is that a good reason enough for Russia to start a war with NATO...? Romania is in NATO, you know that... Moldova is not part of Russia, neither Transdnistria and the ethnic Russians in both of those places are not actually persecuted...
Now, now. By international law, and given that even Moscow recognizes that Transdnitria is part of Republic of Moldova, this would be an internal problem, no? Even if Sandu's excuses are not only lame but outright stupid, and unbelievable. She doesn't need excuses in fact to re-establish Chisinau's control over Transdnistria.
And the claim that R of Moldova is part and parcel of Roumanian cultural and historical space is not a claim, it is a fact, no matter how much Maria Zakharova, who's expertise is in Sinology, would like to be otherwise.
RSS Moldova was the stain on the USSR face, since it was taken from the flesh of another country, which became a socialist country itself. So, in order to resolve this conundrum, that would have obliged the Soviet Union to relinquish that ethnic group to where it belonged, but still in the big socialist brotherhood, they invented a new ethnicity, different from the general Romanian ethnicity.
The question is, what would Russia do if Moldova and Romania re-unite, overnight, and take over Transdnistria (this would be only fair since Northern Bucovina and Budgeac and Snake Island went to Ukraine)? Why would that be a "defeat" for Russia and not a restoration of justice? Next thing I would like to see is US troops being kicked out of S Korea and the two Koreas reunited.
However, for the sake of overall peace, I would prefer peace if the price of the re-unification of Romanians were to be a generalized war. But that, that would be Russia's fault. Because Moldova is not Russky Mir. Never was and never will be.
1. That's misleading since it ignores Russia's right to retaliate in response to possible attacks against its peacekeepers.
2. Again, misleading: while factually true, it implies territorial claims that not all Romanian-descended Moldovans are comfortable with.
3. Sure, you can think that, but that's not relevant to the question of whether or not Sandu might launch an attack against Transnistria that could draw in Russia and Romania.
4. It's unclear what it would do, it might withdraw from Transnistria, or it might stay put and defend its troops there. This uncertainty is why nothing of the sort has yet happened.
5. You sound angry about something and it appears that you're using me and my article as a strawman for sounding off. If that's the case, then I won't continue the discussion.
1. Sorry, it is not peacekeepers, but occupation forces, like US were in Syria propping the Kurds.
2. A majority of them or just some, even a plurality? Also, let us not forget the 70 years of gaslighting of Moldovan population performed by the Soviets and then continued by Russia, that Moldovans are not Romanians. Now that was truly Russian propaganda.
3. Sandu's decision to attack or not will definitely not be just "her" decission. She will be just the cat's paw. It depends also how far down the path of contingencies such a plan and preparations and resources are alocated to it.
4. This uncertainity is also steming from the fact that, as opposed to the Ukrainian situation, the Russian and Ukrainian speaking population in Moldova has not been persecuted. Cannot sell this as well to the Global South. Given the precedent of keeping Moldovans separated from their Moldovan bretherns from Romania and the rest of Romanians separated for that long, especially since there were no ideological reasons (like the two Germanies or the two Koreas) to do that.
5. I am not angry at all, quite calm, albeit in two minds. Considering myself a Romanian patriot, I do wish for re-unification (and yes, I do know the many ills of Romanian polity and especially the bad habits of the political class there) seeing it as an act of historical justice. On the other hand I don't want a third world war to start because of it, while I also want Russia to win in Ukraine which is the anvil on which western oligarchic hegemony is being cracked. The other anvil where the US power will be finally shattered will be Taiwan.
Meanwhile the most rabidly anti Russian Moldovan politicians need to use Biden 2020 tactics to get elected lol.
Let us not forget the 70 years of gaslighting of Moldovan population performed by the Soviets and then continued by Russia, that Moldovans are not Romanians. Now that was truly Russian propaganda.
Compared to that, what is a bit of vote rigging, eh?!
Yeah Sandu was rigging the vote for the right reaosns at least. Stupid ass Moldavians falling for Russian propaganda like Americans did 2016 and letting themselves get tricked into not voting for Sandu. I blame Brezhnev and the Russian troops stationed in Transnistria against the will of the Romanian government. Or Moldavan Government. Whoever. But definitely not the Moldavan people who according to you are too stupid to vote for the correct pro Western candidates.
I did not call Moldovans stupid. Most of the people would rather die than to think. And shaking off imprints since infancy is really hard.
Personally I would love Romania to be neutral, me also being imprinted with Ceusescu's words, "for a Romania free, independent and sovereign, etc, etc, etc...". These have the right ring to them and this is why Calin Georgescu got first in the first round of Romanian Presidential elections.
I am very much against the globalist plutocracy pushed onto the world by the US.
If Russian wants, they can oversleep like they did in Syria. Every oversleeping is Russian diminish. Russians can end up like during Yeltsin time.
Romanians do not care for Transdnistria except as a payback for North Bucovina, Budgeac and Snake Island taken by Russians in 1940 and given to Ukraine after WWII.
It doesn't make sense at all. What the game might be, with all this sound and fury is to somehow shift the focus on the idea that it is Russia's fault. Same way German Chancellor kept repeating that Russia cut the gas to NS1&2...
She can't go all by herself. Also, Russians cannot bring more troops there. Can only use missiles. Boots on the ground is what matters...
The final lines will be drawn and Russians will be kicked out of Transdnistria. Unless there is no ready peace negotiated with the US and Russia goes and takes Odessa. But if that will look likely to happen, US might help take Transdnistria first. A ready scenario for involving NATO can be created in 3 days, by Romanian and Moldovan Parliaments voting the reunification...