What good would Moldova be lololol. That alone is retarded. NATO going to have to arm two countries? Really stupid military thinking.
It's an excuse for the US to claim "Russia is expanding". I hate to say this but Putin fucked up. He had the chance to get to Transnistria last summer and he didn't go for it. Instead he let himself get bogged down in the DPR. Ukraine should be a land locked piece of shit by now.
Maybe. Never forget the first thing to die in war is the truth.
Transnistria is de facto under his control anyways. And anti-West. And pro-Russia. Also. Having to defend it instead of overtly taking it to low info minds is better for managing perceptions and winning information warfare. We do not know if he has stacked a ton of extra troops there like in Belarus to fight or not. He very well could have a wave or two come out of there in the future like he will with Belarus.
This publicly became a thing after that “Wagner is running out of ammo” psyop they ran to keep Ukraine committed to suicide in Bakhmut. Ukies took that bait and likely considered dividing their forces to deny the enemy, seek a perceived advantage and likely spring a serious trap. Putin is no dummy. He is KGB. Master of psychological and information warfare. Do not underestimate his moves.
Everything he has done in this war has won hearts and minds and manipulated the US, NATO and Ukraine into self-pwns by obfuscating signal from noise. The way things are shaking out he will get a better pretext for officially taking it and when this war expands there by NATOs doing, he also has the CTSO in his back pocket.
Russians conduct business much differently than the west.
Russians conduct business much differently than the west.
I think you are correct. Putin does make moves the US sees as mistake but Putin is winning on every front and is still in charge. Perhaps I needed to adjust my perception. I figured this was going to be a long game but I also figured Russia would have hooked up with Transnistria by now and landlocked Ukraine. When the US loses in Ukraine (and yes you CIA cockmites, it will) it'll try again and again. The US engineered a color revolution in Chechnya with Islamic Fanatics. LOST. The US got the Georgians to invade South Odessa. LOST. The US, EU, and NATO engineered a color revolution in Ukraine (Euromaiden). They'll lose again. One would think the US and the west would stop fucking with the Russians.
The funny part are the west calling the Russian "sham" referendums in the four liberated regions considering elections in the US are outright rigged.
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