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There is Transnistria, a breakaway state of Moldova, located in the narrow strip of land between the river Dniester and the Moldovan–Ukrainian border, populated by Russian / Russian-speaking people of around 300,000 people. Russia has a 1500-strong peace keeping force there, de facto serving as the Russian forward operating base.
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Encyclopaedia Galactica (Trantor Publishing House, year 2249): "European political representative":
rag dolls, useless mindless lackeys of the Master and firm believers in childish fantasies, who existed circa 2022 in a corner of euro-Asia.
That was a very good American patriotic speech. That young looking dude, almost me sing the American anthem.
thanks bro, will try to write something up re the Northern crusades but it's interesting the relationship between the Russians, and Poles and even the Golden Horde during that period of history.
As i mentioned in the other thread, Russian retaliation has begun
Russia can employ other methods to bring the pain to the US- as we know, stagflation is already in america with no signs of abating, and the price of natural gas will only increase to punish the foolish westerners, this will cause other food prices to increase as well given transport costs and petrochemicals and fertilisers.
Russians reported capture of Azov neonazi soldiers
I guess from the perspective of Azov, this would be like Gondor Rangers being captured by Uruk-Hai? As some have mentioned here, it was so helpful for these nazis to tattoo themselves so that Russians could find the perpetrators so much more easily!
In line with what i mentioned earlier re US desperation re high oil and gas prices
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China To Make Its Move Against Taiwan? Says US Nukes must leave S. Korea (2022-03-02)
China on Tuesday warned the US that it will pay a "heavy price" for its attempts to show support to Taiwan's independence as a delegation of ex-American defense officials landed in Taipei amid apprehensions that Beijing may attempt action against the self-ruled island akin to Russia's military assault in Ukraine. Yesterday, China issued a statement saying US Nukes in South Korea are "unacceptable" and it is time for those weapons to be sent home.
Taiwanese media reports said a five-member delegation headed by former US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Admiral (retd) Mullen was received by Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, raising concerns in Beijing over the US efforts to step up its engagement with Taiwan, which China firmly affirms as part of the Chinese mainland.
Besides Mullen's visit, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was due to arrive in Taiwan Wednesday.
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China on Tuesday warned the US that it will pay a "heavy price" for its attempts to show support to Taiwan's independence as a delegation of ex-American defense officials landed in Taipei amid apprehensions that Beijing may attempt action against the self-ruled island akin to Russia's military assault in Ukraine. Yesterday, China issued a statement saying US Nukes in South Korea are "unacceptable" and it is time for those weapons to be sent home.
Taiwanese media reports said a five-member delegation headed by former US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Admiral (retd) Mullen was received by Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, raising concerns in Beijing over the US efforts to step up its engagement with Taiwan, which China firmly affirms as part of the Chinese mainland.
Besides Mullen's visit, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was due to arrive in Taiwan Wednesday.
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I have this feeling Xi Jinping and Gang are just gonna be laughing at the West over baijiu during this round of Two Sessions
There are US nuclear weapons in South Korea !!!!?????
Russia Stops Deliveries of Rocket Engines to US, Roscosmos Head Says
SPUTNIK NEWS 2022-03-03
Earlier in the week, Roscosmos head DMITRY ROGOZIN refuted claims that the Russian space agency had allegedly "lost control" of its satellites, stressing that any cyberattacks against the country's satellites are a "CASUS BELLI".
[NOTE: DMITRY ROGOZIN -- Director General of Roscosmos, previously the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in charge of the defense industry from 2011 to 2018, prior to that Russia's ambassador to NATO from 2008 to 2011]
Russia will STOP DELIVERIES of rocket engines to the United States, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin announced Thursday.
"Not only are we refusing to supply these engines [RD-180], but we are also REFUSING MAINTENANCE of the remaining engines. We are talking about 24 MORE ENGINES", the space agency head said.
Since the mid-1990s, 122 RD-180 engines for Atlas missiles have been delivered to the United States, 98 of them have been used.
Rogozin additionally announced that Russia will end cooperation on experiments at the International Space Station (ISS) with Germany.
"Taking into account the completely unacceptable actions of our German colleagues, primarily the German Centre for Aviation and Cosmonautics, I turned off one of the telescopes of our space observatory 'Spektr-RG', which is located at a distance of 1.5 million kilometres from Earth at the La Grange point L2. This is a completely civilian international mission to explore the starry sky", Rogozin elaborated, saying that Russia has all the essential resources to conduct the experiments by itself.
According to the space agency head, Russia's space programme will face some corrections. He explained that the country will focus on CREATING SATELLITES in line with the interests of both Roscosmos and the Russian Defence Ministry.
He stressed the space agency will make certain that the satellites it creates will have a "DUAL PURPOSE" given the "conditions that our country is in now".
Roscosmos is among the many entities that have faced a wave of anti-Russian sanctions in the wake of Moscow's military operation in Ukraine. Earlier in the day, the space agency revealed that the last 56 Russian employees had left the space centre in French Guiana after Roscosmos suspended its cooperation with the European Union in response to the sanctions.
On Wednesday, Rogozin also refuted claims of Russia's satellites and Roscosmos' control centre being "hacked", warning that any cyberattacks against the country's satellites are a "CASUS BELLI" (a reason for war). His remarks followed allegations on social media accounts that a hacker group affiliated with the Anonymous collective had "shut down" Roscosmos' control centre.
SPUTNIK NEWS 2022-03-03
Earlier in the week, Roscosmos head DMITRY ROGOZIN refuted claims that the Russian space agency had allegedly "lost control" of its satellites, stressing that any cyberattacks against the country's satellites are a "CASUS BELLI".
[NOTE: DMITRY ROGOZIN -- Director General of Roscosmos, previously the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in charge of the defense industry from 2011 to 2018, prior to that Russia's ambassador to NATO from 2008 to 2011]
Russia will STOP DELIVERIES of rocket engines to the United States, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin announced Thursday.
"Not only are we refusing to supply these engines [RD-180], but we are also REFUSING MAINTENANCE of the remaining engines. We are talking about 24 MORE ENGINES", the space agency head said.
Since the mid-1990s, 122 RD-180 engines for Atlas missiles have been delivered to the United States, 98 of them have been used.
Rogozin additionally announced that Russia will end cooperation on experiments at the International Space Station (ISS) with Germany.
"Taking into account the completely unacceptable actions of our German colleagues, primarily the German Centre for Aviation and Cosmonautics, I turned off one of the telescopes of our space observatory 'Spektr-RG', which is located at a distance of 1.5 million kilometres from Earth at the La Grange point L2. This is a completely civilian international mission to explore the starry sky", Rogozin elaborated, saying that Russia has all the essential resources to conduct the experiments by itself.
According to the space agency head, Russia's space programme will face some corrections. He explained that the country will focus on CREATING SATELLITES in line with the interests of both Roscosmos and the Russian Defence Ministry.
He stressed the space agency will make certain that the satellites it creates will have a "DUAL PURPOSE" given the "conditions that our country is in now".
Roscosmos is among the many entities that have faced a wave of anti-Russian sanctions in the wake of Moscow's military operation in Ukraine. Earlier in the day, the space agency revealed that the last 56 Russian employees had left the space centre in French Guiana after Roscosmos suspended its cooperation with the European Union in response to the sanctions.
On Wednesday, Rogozin also refuted claims of Russia's satellites and Roscosmos' control centre being "hacked", warning that any cyberattacks against the country's satellites are a "CASUS BELLI" (a reason for war). His remarks followed allegations on social media accounts that a hacker group affiliated with the Anonymous collective had "shut down" Roscosmos' control centre.
Illustration: Liu Rui/GT
Perhaps no country in the world yearns for a change in its declining image more than the US. Thus, Kurt Campbell, White House Indo-Pacific policy coordinator, put forward his opinion on Monday: The US can focus on two theaters - the Indo-Pacific and the war in Europe. He wants to prove that the US is still dominant and its might remains unrivaled.
The hard truth is Washington is reluctant to step into even one theater of war.
During an event hosted by German Marshall Fund, a US think tank, Campbell said that Washington had been deeply engaged in two theaters simultaneously before, including during WWII and the Cold War. "It's difficult. It's expensive. But it is also essential," he emphasized.
Campbell's following remarks soon exposed his attempt to mislead the audience. He named a few events to show the US "determination" to sustain high-level engagement with the Indo-Pacific region, including a scheduled summit with Southeast Asian leaders in March and a planned summit of the Quad grouping of the US, Australia, Japan and India in May.
He was just playing with words. By deliberately mentioning the word "theater," Campbell equated dealing with two US political rivals at the same time with fighting in two wars against two US adversaries simultaneously, Shen Yi, a professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University, told the Global Times.
Even if people focus only on the US' capabilities during the WWII and the Cold War, history tells another story, one that is different from the one Campbell has tried hard to present.
During the WWII, the US did fight in the Pacific Ocean theater and the European theater. Yet, at the 1941 Arcadia Conference between then US president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill shortly after the US entered the war, the "Europe First" strategy was affirmed. That meant the US and the UK would devote more of their resources to fight in the European theater first.
When it came to the Cold War, reports show that observers used to say that the Pentagon was prepared to fight two and a half wars at the same time, which implied the US should have the capability of fighting two large regional wars and a small one simultaneously.
Really? Then what led to the historic ice-breaking of China-US ties and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries?
"Former president Richard Nixon had long ago done the math for the US - it could not afford to fight two wars at once. That's why Washington decided to ease tensions with one side, which eventually led to his visit to China," Shen said.
As for the US strength today, setting aside the fact the country is far from its glory days, Washington is not confident it can win even one regional war. The US' announcement of not sending its military forces to the frontlines in Ukraine is proof. More examples can be listed - being mired in conflicts in Vietnam, Afghanistan… and failing to claim victory in either. Against this backdrop, fighting two wars will only be a suicide mission for the US.
The US has right now a disastrous domestic economy to cope with. When it plucked up the courage to unleash nuclear-level sanctions - kicking Russia out of the SWIFT system, it had to carefully skirt around the Russian banks involved in the energy sector. "How can Campbell convince anyone that the US can still fight and win two wars with such an overcautious and faint-hearted approach?" Shen questioned.
But the US is afraid to show its weakness to the world, which is what prompted Campbell to have tried so hard to purposefully misguide his audience, giving the false impression that the US is still powerful. The tougher American politicians play, the more they reveal how frail the US has become.
The island of Taiwan is shivering after having witnessed what's going on in Ukraine. Campbell may try to boost the island's morale by attempting to talk tough toward the Chinese mainland, pretending it can prevent China's reunification, said Xu Liang, associate professor at the School of International Relations, Beijing International Studies University.
Campbell might want to assure the island of Taiwan that the US can still offer impenetrable defense for the island, although it has been only watching the Ukraine crisis from the other side of the globe. It remains to be seen how many forces still buy US' assurances.
Compared with the WWII era, the sun is setting on the US, which is now trying to boost its influence by talking big and launching wars of words. Who is it trying to fool? Who can it intimidate? Forget about two wars, even one theater of war would be too much for the US.