Russia Invades Ukraine VII

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And they're tying down a substantial number of Russian troops, troops they need, if they're going to pull off their north/south pincer move on the eastern Ukraine army unit
I saw an interview with a fighter there. He basically said the same. He said no matter what happens they have achieved their goal by making Russia tie up so many resources.
 

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I saw an interview with a fighter there. He basically said the same. He said no matter what happens they have achieved their goal by making Russia tie up so many resources.
I'm going to predict the pincer move will fail. I don't think they have enough reliable troops to pull it off. Some of the intercepted traffic by the Russian rank and file should be profoundly disturbing to them. I think it is to some of the Kremlin leadership. Putin plows ahead. These last videos, his face is blown up like a pumpkin, so much that his eyes are squeezed. Just what the world needs - a leader up on steroids, although the world survived JFK...
 

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Unless Putin is pulling a Michael Corleone, I don't think he's is helping his cause assassinating all these oligarchs. They have enough money and connections to buy generals and mafia assassins.
 
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Unless Putin is pulling a Michael Corleone, I don't think he's is helping his cause assassinating all these oligarchs. They have enough money and connections to buy generals and mafia assassins.
Stalin, in the 1930s purges, stayed in power by murdering anybody who had the potential of replacing him. Stalin died in power in 1953.
 
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Not sure what to think about this


or this



Seems to be a lot of things burning over there.
 

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Not sure what to think about this


or this



Seems to be a lot of things burning over there.

sabotage?
 
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Maybe, although I doubt they can get there.
Transnistria is a bit of a strange case. Stalin created an "Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" in western Ukraine.
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Then he annexed the portion of the province of Moldavia between the Dniester (Nister) River and the Bug in the summer of 1940 when attention was focused on France. They created the Molavian Soviet Socialists Republic.

The Soviets exiled a large number of the Romanians living there, and brought in large numbers of ethnic Moldavian SSR.jpeg
Which included some of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, but not all. The pink region below when back to Ukraine.
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This demonstrates that ethnicity and the desires of the local population mattered not at all to Stalin.
When the Soviet Union came apart, Russians, especially in the area on the other side of the Dniester/Nister River (Transnistria) seceded from Moldova. Then Moldova seceded from the USSR.
If Russia does not establish a ground link with Transnistria, the "republic" will be vulnerable to pressure from Ukraine. The Russians would like to establish a land bridge to Transnistria so they can move more troops into the region (Russia has around 1,400 "peacekeepers" in Transnistria), but I doubt they can get that far.
 

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