How should west respond to potential (likely) Russian invasion of Ukraine?

[Harry Bosch]

Russia has some troops in Transnistria to "protect" pro-Russian people there.

Transnistria is ethnically russian-ukrainian.

Why not say that it's ethnically Jewish-Ukranian? Or Moldovolain-Ukranian? The country is 48% Ukranian. It's only 8.5% Russian. That's about equal to it's Jewish population.

Demographic history of Transnistria - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Any country with even a tiny minority of Russia citizens is in danger of Russian invasion in today's world sadly.

 

[barbos]

Russia has some troops in Transnistria to "protect" pro-Russian people there.

Transnistria is ethnically russian-ukrainian.

Why not say that it's ethnically Jewish-Ukranian? Or Moldovolain-Ukranian? The country is 48% Ukranian. It's only 8.5% Russian. That's about equal to it's Jewish population.

Demographic history of Transnistria - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Any country with even a tiny minority of Russia citizens is in danger of Russian invasion in today's world sadly.

Well, they want to join Russia. That tells you something.
And it's actually 33.8% russian now. Russian are the largest group there.
Combined with ukrainians they are an absolute majority, hence russian-ukrainian.
Kinda explains why they want to separate from soon to be Romania Moldova

 

[barbos]

Any country with even a tiny minority of Russia citizens is in danger of Russian invasion in today's world sadly.

Certainly, if you want to ban russian language.
and 34% is not tiny.

 

[Copernicus]

Transnistria is internationally recognized as part of Moldova, so any Russian troops there should be allowed the choice to move back to Russia, if that is where their loyalties lie. Moldova itself has voted to align itself with the West, but Russian troops occupy Transnistria. They are probably very happy to be stationed there and away from the occupation forces under fire in Ukrainian territory.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

What I don't think you understand is that weapons like HIMARS are more about denial than actual hits.

Too late for that. Russian forces learned how to deal with that during HIMARS era.

What you don't understand is that what HIMARS does is deny the Russians any sort of facility within the zone it can fire on. It's about degrading your logistics, not actually about blowing anything up.

What you don't understand is that I am not dumber than you and know about all of that. And more importantly russian army knows about that and took all the necessary measures.

What you fail to understand is that the primary objective is to get the Russians to take the necessary measures. Everything important has to be placed beyond HIMARS range. And now they're going to have to move those things beyond ATACMS range.

 

[barbos]

What you fail to understand is that the primary objective is to get the Russians to take the necessary measures

What you don't understand that the measures you are talking about have already been taken. And it had nothing to do with ATACMS. It had to do with HIMARS. Russian army now keeps shit well spread out. Making using expensive american shit missiles useless.
And since most of the damage is done by AirForce, the need for shells have reduced too.

 

[barbos]

In other news US "intelligence" quietly admitted that Putin DID NOT order death of Navalny.
In other words, he died from natural causes and US media was lying to you.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Some good news for the day. Australia is donating arms and support to Ukraine:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...S&cvid=4c8029a163b94a0d8dbcfea87d75f4fb&ei=18

They donated air defense systems, drones and other equipment. I liked the quote "While Ukraine is here fighting for its sovereignty and for its nation, it is also fighting for the maintenance of the global rules-based order and in that sense, it’s fighting for us,” Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said Saturday in Lviv.

 

[barbos]

the global rules-based order

What exactly is that?

 

[SLD]

the global rules-based order

What exactly is that?

The one where the US and the west dominate.

 

[Harry Bosch]

the global rules-based order

What exactly is that?

I'll send you the memo. But the first rule is to not invade your neighbors and bomb the shit out them.

 

[barbos]

the global rules-based order

What exactly is that?

I'll send you the memo. But the first rule is to not invade your neighbors and bomb the shit out them.

I got it. Always invade far away countries and bomb shit out them.

 

[barbos]

the global rules-based order

What exactly is that?

The one where the US and the west dominate.

Accidental honesty?

 

[Harry Bosch]

the global rules-based order

What exactly is that?

The one where the US and the west dominate.

Accidental honesty?

You understand sarcasm? Cарказм.

 

[barbos]

You understand sarcasm? Cарказм.

I do. Not sure you do.

 

[Harry Bosch]

You understand sarcasm? Cарказм.

I do. Not sure you do.

Okay. Touche. Not sure what the Russian word for Touche is.

 

[barbos]

You understand sarcasm? Cарказм.

I do. Not sure you do.

Okay. Touche. Not sure what the Russian word for Touche is.

Same word in russian as in english and french.
So you see, you are learning russian. When we invade&conquer you you will be able to understand and follow your new overlords.

 

[Harry Bosch]

You understand sarcasm? Cарказм.

I do. Not sure you do.

Okay. Touche. Not sure what the Russian word for Touche is.

Same word in russian as in english and french.
So you see, you are learning russian. When we invade&conquer you you will be able to understand and follow your new overlords.

You'll have to fight through Sarah Palin first for that.

 

[barbos]

You understand sarcasm? Cарказм.

I do. Not sure you do.

Okay. Touche. Not sure what the Russian word for Touche is.

Same word in russian as in english and french.
So you see, you are learning russian. When we invade&conquer you you will be able to understand and follow your new overlords.

You'll have to fight through Sarah Palin first for that.

Russian Army is storming New York already.

 

[Rhea]

Same word in russian as in english and french.
So you see, you are learning russian. When we invade&conquer you you will be able to understand and follow your new overlords.

You'll have to fight through Sarah Palin first for that.

Russian Army is storming New York already.

Sarah Palin is not in New York.

Or is you army’s plan to sneak up behind Palin’s Alaska home by starting from New York?