The War in Ukraine
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Feb 2024
3:57pm, 24 Feb 2024
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Muttley
Gah. Try again with a different one. |
Feb 2024
5:18pm, 24 Feb 2024
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Northern Exile
Love it.
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Feb 2024
3:07pm, 28 Feb 2024
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154 Rob
kyivindependent.com Transnistria was eastern Moldova but high Russian population and been separated for years. 6000 Russian troops stationed there normally, but currently the Moldovans aren't trading with them creating shortages. It's near Odesa. |
Feb 2024
5:04pm, 28 Feb 2024
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richmac
Moldova knows that if Ukraine falls then they are next. Having a well provisioned Russian regiment or 2 inside their boarders isn't in their interests really |
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Feb 2024
12:58am, 29 Feb 2024
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154 Rob
However they're not trading with Transnistria, creating shortages which is why Transnistria has asked for Russian aid.
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Feb 2024
8:56am, 29 Feb 2024
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Muttley
There is a Russian force there but it's not a combat-ready outfit and I think it's mostly manned by local conscripts. There's also a huge and decaying arms depot that if it goes bang will flatten the place for miles around. Imho this is just the Kremlin stirring the shit and serving a reminder that it could stir up trouble on the other side of Ukraine. It also controls a district of Georgia, South Ossetia, that has actually asked to be incorporated into Russia but is being kept on hold, presumably to be activated at a time that suits the Kremlin. Same with Transnistria, seems to me. I was watching Russian TV last night and it got barely a mention. |
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Feb 2024
9:17am, 29 Feb 2024
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Muttley
When it comes to understanding what is going in Ukraine, the eastern Europeans and Balts are clear-eyed. The Lithuanian foreign minister sums it up nicely. x.com |
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Mar 2024
9:04am, 1 Mar 2024
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Muttley
After the big snoozefest yesterday. |
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Mar 2024
9:16am, 1 Mar 2024
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Northern Exile
Ha! Yeah, I think the whole flipping world tuned in to his sabre-rattling the other day.
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Mar 2024
9:36am, 1 Mar 2024
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Muttley
Old Soviet joke updated. A secretary walks into the minister's office: "I slept with you! I demand an apartment." "You did? When, where?" "At the address to the Federal Assembly. You were in the third row, I was in the fifth." |
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