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Sinnavuuty

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Something is brewing in the direction of Transnistria region of Moldova:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628138774260551705
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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Something may happen regarding Moldova in the future...
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628120010488004608
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627496411980865536
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628168653471457280
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628157850152206343
Temstar said:
This isn't really a good thing for US. In US mind they have to have US > Russia + China in terms of warhead and delivery vehicle. Right now that's already a questionable equation after China's new windmill expansion. Even to maintain current delivery vehicle count US will have to spend a lot of money into Sentinel ICBM and Colombia class. I just saw some pictures of the existing Minuteman III silos the other day and their conditions aren't good:
Have to fix them up, convert them into housing the new ICBM and build those ICBMs. It's not a trivial thing and doubly so if you insist on building two warhead+delivery for each Russian or Chinese counterpart.
Funnily enough a nuclear arms race is bad for American MIC, as resources shifted into nuclear weapons will compete with funding for conventional military force.
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I thought I would be better off since Americans spend billions of dollars to keep the nuclear arsenal up to date.
 
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One of his main rivals, mayor of Istanbul is being convicted for some political crime to take him out of the running. Erdogan is distancing himself from poor construction revealed by the earthquake, and
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. NATO is worried he will win another term. I think it could go either way.

Also, why? :
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627810831881670663
 
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ACuriousPLAFan

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Sinnavuuty said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628168653471457280
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628157850152206343
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It would be stupid for the Russian forces to attempt capturing an enemy airport deep inside enemy territory and far from any reliable ground support. The airport at Chisinau is totally indefensible if Modolva really goes all-in against Russia with their military.

If they go ahead with this, that means they learnt nothing from the Battle of Antonov Airport last year.
 
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ACuriousPLAFan said:
It would be stupid for the Russian forces to attempt capturing an enemy airport deep inside enemy territory and far from any reliable ground support. The airport at Chisinau is totally indefensible if Modolva really goes all-in against Russia with their military.

If they go ahead with this, that means they learnt nothing from the Battle of Antonov Airport last year.
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They don't have much of a choice though, doesn't Russia have its forces in Transnistria? Looks like a second front in Ukraine just opened up.
 
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Minm said:
China is resisting the Russia equals China and Ukraine equals Taiwan comparison. The China equals Ukraine and Taiwan equals DNR and LNR comparison is something different.

If they accept peace and Russia is saved from a war which it can't afford that's good for China and if Ukraine refuses to negotiate and this can be used as justification for arms sales to Russia that's also good for China.

China going out of its way and instead of staying silent and neutral actually making a proposal that disregards the UN charter will only weaken China's claim to Taiwan. The separatist forces and enemy states will cite such a proposal for the next hundred years. Russia isn't worth such a sacrifice
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Not to mention even if China managed to create a peace deal the moment the war ended all of America's attention and efforts in the Ukraine would be transferred to undermining China. If China threatened the Ukraine to accept a deal (no matter how generous) or they will start arming Russia the Ukrainians will run to the Americans and claim the Chinese are bullying them.

There's no chance a peace deal is going to work, both sides are as intent on fighting as the day they started. I don't know Xi is even bothering bringing this up. It's not worth the effort even for political brownie points.
 
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Abominable said:
Not to mention even if China managed to create a peace deal the moment the war ended all of America's attention and efforts in the Ukraine would be transferred to undermining China. If China threatened the Ukraine to accept a deal (no matter how generous) or they will start arming Russia the Ukrainians will run to the Americans and claim the Chinese are bullying them.

There's no chance a peace deal is going to work, both sides are as intent on fighting as the day they started. I don't know Xi is even bothering bringing this up. It's not worth the effort even for political brownie points.
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Even if the peace offer isn't acceptable to either side (and I agree with that assessment, both side still have plenty of fight in them), coming forward with a peace plan is an useful gesture to show rest of the world that there's at least one superpower around doing serious work trying to end the war instead of pouring more oil on it.

Once Ukraine publicly rejects the peace offer China will have more leverage to do the "don't blame me, he choose violence" thing and increase aid to Russia. I still don't think you will see entire platforms in Russian hands so no chance of seeing 99A duking it out with Abram, hence why I was thinking what sort of UCAV aid can there be while still maintain plausible deniability.

According to Ayi's friends on Weibo last year there were already cases were groups of PLA vets submitted request to volunteer for Ukraine and fight as PVA, but their requests were predictably shot down.
 
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