Russia's next escalation?

Think he'd struggle to have the equipment and manpower to go for Moldova. He's just using the Ukraine war to make life as uncomfortable for them as possible. A lot of thenpower blackouts affect Moldova as they import a large amount of their electricity from Ukraine so they are suffering in this war too albeit only really economically of course.

His goal is the recreation of imperial Russia. And that’s what his apologists overlook, deliberately or otherwise. Nobody would seriously suggest that the other former imperial powers, such as Britain or Spain or Rome or the Ottomans or the Austro-Hungarians, have a right to re-gain control over their former fiefdoms, so why do quite a lot of people seem prepared to argue that Russia should somehow uniquely have that right? It’s entirely illogical and I’m afraid we are all right to question their motives, which must be held suspect.

Had the land bridge been established all the way through Odessa to Moldova, which was was a huge target for a time, it seems very likely Moldova would have been next. There were already False Flag operations in action preparing for it.

What probably disturbs me most of all about the war, one year on, is that around a half of people globally, in surveys, seem to be on each side. Around half of people (and even a third in places like Germany) think the US provoked Russia in some way and deliberately caused this. Again around a third even in Germany believe the (insanely, childishly, nonsensical) Russian disinformation story about the US using labs in eastern Ukraine to develop biological weapons.

This is intensely worrying, mostly for the lack of intelligence and lack of ability to cut through the crap online and come to logical, rational, conclusions. And for what it says about people's feelings about self determination and democracy. Ukraine's "sin" was that a majority of its people wanted to join NATO and the EU. No more or less. The West "engineers" this by having clearly freer and more wealthy societies, Russia and Belarus tarnish their images by blatantly beating, imprisoning, and murdering their political opponents and people who want to express things like their sexuality in ways that are not approved of by the elite (as do Iran, N Korea, China, etc).

Western systems are far from perfect, but it worries me a lot that people can't see the huge difference between our issues, and somewhere like Iran, when it comes to personal freedom and morality. We take a lot for granted here and need to be collectively more willing to stand up for what we believe in, and fight what we do not - as we now learn from pandering to Putin for decades. Because as Racing says, after Ukraine, it would have been someone else, then someone else and so on until probably a world war. Which may still be where this ends, but we're up against - as a historical analogy - Hitler in 1934 not 1939, and in terms of capability thats a very different beast.

Someone is orchestrating protests in Moldova against what Putin has called an anti Russia government..........

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immigration from China have led to the fear of
a Chinese appropriation of the RFE. While it is
difficult to ascertain the actual number of
Chinese illegal immigrants in the region, the
phenomenon has been a cause of concern for
Russian authorities. Media and politicians
have frequently quoted a figure between two
26 to five million, prompting even Vladimir
Putin to say, “If we do not take practical steps
to advance the Far East soon, after a few
decades, the Russian population will be
27 speaking Chinese, Japanese, and Korean”.

Piers Morgan is looking a little rough..

It's bollocks, Turkey has the largest army in NATO, after the US. If Russia thinks it's having difficulty in Ukraine then taking on Turkey in their own backyard is a whole new ball game. 

Somewhat surprised China doesn't have some plans somewhere to take parts of Eastern Russia for themselves. Suspect they'll be happy to loan Putin the money he needs to prop up his economy in return for a very good deal on their oil and a bit of land to extend their belt and road program.

Latest I read was that China wants to appear to give Putin just enough support to keep Putin a friend of china, yet not enough that he can actually win in Ukraine. In fact they hope Russia loses, so that they can then do a good deal (effectively seizing control economically or physically) over the huge tracts of land they want in the east, thus controlling even more of the world's resources.

www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/putin-s-election-fixer-dies-of-sudden-heart-attack-despite-seeming-fine/ar-AA18XOQ2?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=48062b122ae6400cbebac37b4716fbad&ei=11

Makes a change from window hopping.

Civil war?

Reminds me of a gym teacher I once had. 

Ding ding, round whatnot.