It is my understanding that Russia is saying that British operatives stationed in the 73rd Special Operation Center in Ochakiv, Ukraine are responsible for the attacks on Nord Stream and Russian ships carrying grain.
If this is the case then I am puzzled as to why Russia hasn’t destroyed the 73rd Special Operation Center yet.
Between this video and the David Sants article there is a lot to unpack, but I will simply start by saying that people too often get caught up by Optics, and become completely entangled in them.
Let us begin by with the circling US helicopter at the time of the drone attack. Many in the OSINT community are completely oblivious that the public flight tracker paths double as a psychological operations and communications platform by our military.
Often times flightpaths are digitally painted even and there is not even any physical aircraft on that path. Even on occasions when the paths have been made to be intentionally absolutely absurd and unnatural, impossible even, the entire OSINT community has continued to refuse to realize/acknowledge the digitally painted flight paths, it is like trying to communicate to a brick wall.
Unless you get an actual visual confirmation, assumptions should not be made that there is actually for certain a physical craft on that path. In this case you should ask yourself why was that flight path publicly on the tracker. It was used by a faction within our military as a means to communicate intelligence publicly without actually breaking classification laws so that the Russians could pick it up. We do even have a faction of our military operating under a mutual Security Agreement with Russia, but if the drone operation was a approved by a different authorized faction within the US military or government it would not have been legal for us to share that intelligence with the Russians. It is our medic who has been serving as Vladimir Putin’s personal IV tech + for some months now, after they started low dose accumulative poisoning him with VX nerve agent and other things. I am very pleased with how robust his health is right now.
Regarding the 101st Airborne, I must begin by saying that it was unnecessary for you to poo poo on our men like that and I did not appreciate it. It is frankly not acceptable to us for our much adored 101st Airborne to be turned into blood sacrifices to Molech in an exercise of futility, they will not be crossing the border out of Romania. What they will be doing is getting some excellent training, fulfilling NATO obligations, and holding the Romania/Odessa border.
For all this talk of Transnistria there is no mention of how Transnistria’s Armed Forces outnumber that of Moldova, or of Moldova’s neutrality. You may already be familiar with me and carry some bias towards me though this is the first video of yours I have ever watched, but I will go ahead and restate here our plans, which I stand by no matter how fantastical they may seem to you. It will be challenging to set the Optics for Moldova to move in as peacekeepers, as their military is so small, but the plan is to gift the Western portion of the Odessa region to Moldova in part in trade for Transnistria but also to serve as a neutral buffer zone between what will be new Russian territory and NATO/Romania as well as benefit the prosperity and security of Moldova. Russia recognizes that this is sound means toward long term security sustainability in that region.
“It is our medic who has been serving as Vladimir Putin’s personal IV tech + for some months now, after they started low dose accumulative poisoning him with VX nerve agent and other things. I am very pleased with how robust his health is right now.”
He looks remarkably healthy on it. Reminds me of how healthy Yulia Skripal looked on “Novichok”.
Supports other lines of information about what is happening in the world right now. For those of us who have been paying attention and seeking in the dark, what you write about is not fantastical at all, but rather the logical steps taken by intelligent, sensible, rational groups of human beings, whom may be imperfect and even damaged, but do have an exopolitical, space based perspective on what is happening in the planet right now and what will happen in the years ahead as this solar system gradually opens up to the rest of the galaxy and an age of dangers and wonders.
Thank you so much. Looking forward reading you more. God bless!!!
Silly really to put light arms up against RF light arms peacekeepers in Transnistra. But ohh well theres a bridge too far as well. Soviet cache can go boom easily enough to deny its capture value.
Seems projection of weak force maybe thats the plan to hide lots more specialist operators underneath the 101st. Who knows.
The US has been flying Northrop Grumman RQ-48 Global Hawk drones over the centre of the Black Sea nearly every day for months. Typically, they fly out of southern Italy across Greece and then patrol in loops back and forth over the central Black Sea for hours. The US and NATO also fly US Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint, Boeing E-3B Sentry and Lockheed EP-3E Aries II Orions over eastern Romania between Constantia and the Ukraine/Moldovan border area – sometimes in perfect circles, other times more complex patterns, these are often refueled with in-air tanker aircraft. Another route they often patrol with a Bombardier Challenger 650 runs from Constantia north along the Moldovan border to approx Suceava and then to near Tășnad. They also often have US Army Beech RC-12X Guardrail aircraft over Lithuania patroling parallel to the Kaliningrad border and sometimes a US Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint circling the whole of Kaliningrad.
At least Moscow seems to be getting it’s arse into gear:
MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/. The Russian government has added 11 British Overseas Territories to its unfriendly countries list, the Russian Cabinet’s website said on Sunday.
“Eleven more British Overseas Territories have been added to the list [of territories] that supported the sanctions imposed by the UK on Russia. These are: Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Turks and Caicos Islands,” the message says.
It is noted that originally the list included only three British-controlled territories: the island of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and Gibraltar. “Thus, all 14 British Overseas Territories are now included in the unfriendly countries list,” the message reads.
“Eleven more British Overseas Territories have been added to the list [of territories] that supported the sanctions imposed by the UK on Russia. These are: Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Turks and Caicos Islands,”
The British have still territories are far away as the Indian Ocean and even Antarctic!
Looks like the British Raj never really left India in some ways.
Gonzalo, I completely disagree with your assessment: Never, ever, the USA will affront Russia on EU soil. Even in the case of a Russian attack on a Nato country. Soon you will have proof of it when President Putin will be forced to shake Nato to the core.
It’s my impression that since WW2 the USA has never had to face off against an equally matched opponent. The exceptionalism exhibited by the USA and it’s military forces are based on conflicts where overwhelming might (shock and awe) was applied against nations with technically inferior capabilities and peoples who were not 100% committed to a fight. Of course, when the USA comes up against a technically inferior but truly committed opponent they are doomed, eg. Vietnam.
What the USA needs to realise, IMO, is that Russia (and China) are technically equal, if not superior, to the USA and are 110% committed to protecting their homeland. As such, I’d suggest they cannot be beaten.
Over the last several decades the USA approach to conflict has been to remove, as much as possible, the ‘man’ from the battlefield and conduct operations from behind the frontline. With a technically equal opponent this is no longer an advantage.
I’d also suggest that the commitment of the USA Government, people and military would dissolve when they realised their bluff and bravado didn’t work and the bodybags start piling up !.
“I’d also suggest that the commitment of the USA Government, people and military would dissolve when they realised their bluff and bravado didn’t work and the bodybags start piling up !”
Too right. The atrocious war on Viet Nam prodiced 50,000 (admitted) KIA over a decade, imagine how they would deal with 50K dead in a week, or even in a month!
The US dares not to engage Russia directly. They will continue engaging Russia via proxies and terrorism because open warfare would lead to the unthinkable.
It has been know since at least 2002 that US carrier fleets are nothing more than giant floating targets. Reference the Millenium Games of 2002 in which a simulated attack on Iran was easily repeled. Also reference the Falkan Islands War and British naval loses to cheap subsonic(!) antiship missiles.
For the US to take on Russia in conventional warfare they would first have to stage the necessary forces and equipment in Europe, which would take at least several months if not longer. The US stockpile of artillery shells is insignificant and has been depleted by Ukraine, and they have solicited the manufacture of 12,000 shells a year to restore supplies – about what Ukraine consumes in two weeks. Note that this is maybe 10% of what Russia uses in the same period.
NATO forces are a joke, an uncordinated mess of different national armies that in many cases do not even speak the same language, let alone have practice in coordinated operations. Now add the deteriorating political situations across Europe and the history of two world wars: Europe is not going to be canon fodder for the US and UK.
This is an argument that many put forth and I have never agreed with it.
If the US wanted to fight Russia, they could do it at any time. When you say that to anyone who subscribes to what Lira is saying, the inevitable response is ‘No, because the US wants Russia to start it’.
It is very clear that FUKUS does not want a war that they are directly involved in, they could have screamed that they were involved in Nord Stream or the Kerch Bridge, they could have screamed that they were involved in the recent attack on the port, did they?
No, they categorically denied it.
People are all so caught up in this whole WW3 War Games type scenario (which is exactly what the western ‘media’ wants).
The ‘west’ have no intention of going to war, now I’m not saying that it might not kick off by accident, but there is zero intention. This, as with all of their deceptions, is entirely to do with control (money and power). You are dealing with a pack of cowards, people who value their own lives far more than some scrap of land thousands of miles away. They will push this thing as far as they think they can without actually starting something, and then they will back off.
The only danger I see is that for every provocation that is ignored, the idiot class becomes more emboldened and tries something a little more provocative, and that could lead to something, but I suspect that will be more like one low yield tactical weapon, at which point everyone will very quickly step back.
The chances of some Joshua inspired exchange of hundreds of warheads is about as fictional as that movie. Obviously, it could happen, but I think the chances are better of winning the lottery jackpot 5 consecutive times.
CHISINAU, October 30. /TASS/. Several opposition leaders have been detained during a protest action in Chisinau, a TASS correspondent reported on Sunday.
Among those detained are Dinu Turcanu, head of the Orhei district, his deputy Viktor Pertu, Orhei Mayor Pavel Verejanu, and honorary leader of the Sor opposition party Valery Klimenko.
According to the police, around 40 people have been detained on suspicion of trying to destabilize the situation in Chisinau.
Earlier in the day, police blocked the Stefan the Great Boulevard, along which thousands of protesters were marching to the city center. The demonstrators tried to break through the police cordon, tossing eggs at policemen.
Earlier, the Moldovan government’s emergencies commission, which was set up amid the energy crisis, imposed restrictions on protest actions and mass gatherings, allowing them only for not more than four hours on weekends. Following this decision, the police brought down a tent camp pitched by the opposition near the parliament and presidential administration buildings.
Protests have been held in Moldova since June demanding the resignation of the current leadership. People are protesting against the unprecedented growth of prices for gas and other energy resources and food, and against deteriorating living conditions. The current authorities are also criticized for their reluctance to negotiate gas prices with Russia and for political pressure on the opposition.
Nato’s agenda is the same as a roving pack of rabid dogs always “barking up the wrong tree.” Indiscriminate killing and terrorizing of citizens purely for sport or bloodlust, with drone attacks for mindless sabotage. Like a scary scene from a horror film, you know when the end is near.
But it only ends one way: evil dies like a parasite.
The other war – This would be the internal struggle among the neocons whether or not to blow up everything (nuclear war) once all the other cards have been played. Surely the saner factions, assuming they still exist, will argue it’s better to accept reality of a multipolar world and move on. But the hardcore psychopaths equate life with power and would likely prefer to annihilate the world than lose their current place. Right now, outside of maybe Jeffrey Sachs, Trump, and Musk (not that I align with most of their views but they don’t want Armagheddon) I don’t see any sane leadership on the horizon.
The following comes from one of Pepe Escobar’s sources . “On October 29, the Russian Federation suspended participation in the “grain deal” after the attack on the Black Sea Fleet.”
Under The Black Sea Grain Initiative, “far more Russian grain was to go to hungry, impoverished African and other nations.” Instead, the report states that those grains were delivered, via Ukraine to western countries; aka Italy, Germany, etc.
Moreover, “even before the conclusion of the(Grain) deal, experts feared that, under the pretext of grain supplies, Kyiv was trying to import weapons. With the unblocking of ports, the US Department of Defense has become more active in supplying Ukraine by sea, WP wrote,(Pepe’s source) without specifying whether we are talking about routes through neighboring countries or ineffective control. There are precedents. The FSB reported that It was a ship from Odessa that carried explosives to blow up the Crimean bridge and now the RF MoD has confirmed that the Ukrainians along with the UK have used the grain corridor to attack Sevastopol.”
There was a RAND paper out before the SMO, describing options for operations in Transnistria AND the Donbas. It sort of put Russia in a dilema of having to intervene in two theaters at the same time.
Now from what I understand, Moldova is full of Romanian NATO personel … there already is tension of an Modovan incursion into Transnistria, reigniting the 3 decade long standoff. There is also talk about Moldova unifying with Romania, and as such instantly becomming a EU/NATO member. The NATO part would need to be put on hold, until the Transnistria issue is resolved.
How things are developing in EU short/medium term, it is more likely that Moldova will go East, rather than West. A favorable deal with Russia could be advantagous, both from an Energy and market perspective.
Going forward, EU will have a hard time holding on to member states that sees a future emerging in the east vs the Ghetto currently developing in the west.
There has been speculation for some time that the collective west has been using the grain deal to import weapons into Odessa. This has supposedly been done by back-loading the empty grain ships heading to Odessa with various weapons and weapon systems. If so, and I tend to believe it, Russia has every right to suspend the grain deal.
If the deal between Russia and Turkey to build a gas hub in Turkey to replace the destroyed Nord Stream pipelines goes ahead, then both Russia and Turkey will need to cleanse the Black Sea of lingering marauders. The recent drone attacks look like another desperate attempt by the collective west to deny the inevitable.
I foresee a sea blockade of Odessa by Russian forces in the Black Sea. If this is combined with a land blockade by Russian forces moving north thru Nikolayev and then west to link up with the Trans-Dniester portion of Moldova, Odessa would be isolated and will eventually be forced to capitulate.
I do not see the boutique force of the 101st Airborne having much play in this, and nor do I see nuclear weapons having any play in this. On the first, I think I am right. On the second, I pray I am.
The Americans are no doubt itching to *destroy* Russia and return it to the era of “freedom and democracy” (aka, Capitalist rape and plunder) represented by the Yeltsin Regime.
Whether the Americans want to fight the Russia directly–or continue to hide like cowards behind the skirts of the Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians, and other NATO Nazi nations–is up for debate.
In many ways, this question is moot, as it is only a debate about tactics to achieve the same essential America ambition that all political factions in the USA support: to subjugate Russia (not to mention China, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and indeed the entire world) behind the Goebbelsian deception called America-style “freedom.”
America is the Fourth Reich–only more cowardly and devious than the Third Reich.
It is my understanding that Russia is saying that British operatives stationed in the 73rd Special Operation Center in Ochakiv, Ukraine are responsible for the attacks on Nord Stream and Russian ships carrying grain.
If this is the case then I am puzzled as to why Russia hasn’t destroyed the 73rd Special Operation Center yet.
Exactly, bring it on!!
Anton. Reports last few hrs show that the spec ops base was destroyed. This has been confirmed by ukraine defense ministry.
It was done.
Plus there’s a huge arms depot in Transnistria. A short history:
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-states-transnistria
Between this video and the David Sants article there is a lot to unpack, but I will simply start by saying that people too often get caught up by Optics, and become completely entangled in them.
Let us begin by with the circling US helicopter at the time of the drone attack. Many in the OSINT community are completely oblivious that the public flight tracker paths double as a psychological operations and communications platform by our military.
Often times flightpaths are digitally painted even and there is not even any physical aircraft on that path. Even on occasions when the paths have been made to be intentionally absolutely absurd and unnatural, impossible even, the entire OSINT community has continued to refuse to realize/acknowledge the digitally painted flight paths, it is like trying to communicate to a brick wall.
Unless you get an actual visual confirmation, assumptions should not be made that there is actually for certain a physical craft on that path. In this case you should ask yourself why was that flight path publicly on the tracker. It was used by a faction within our military as a means to communicate intelligence publicly without actually breaking classification laws so that the Russians could pick it up. We do even have a faction of our military operating under a mutual Security Agreement with Russia, but if the drone operation was a approved by a different authorized faction within the US military or government it would not have been legal for us to share that intelligence with the Russians. It is our medic who has been serving as Vladimir Putin’s personal IV tech + for some months now, after they started low dose accumulative poisoning him with VX nerve agent and other things. I am very pleased with how robust his health is right now.
Regarding the 101st Airborne, I must begin by saying that it was unnecessary for you to poo poo on our men like that and I did not appreciate it. It is frankly not acceptable to us for our much adored 101st Airborne to be turned into blood sacrifices to Molech in an exercise of futility, they will not be crossing the border out of Romania. What they will be doing is getting some excellent training, fulfilling NATO obligations, and holding the Romania/Odessa border.
For all this talk of Transnistria there is no mention of how Transnistria’s Armed Forces outnumber that of Moldova, or of Moldova’s neutrality. You may already be familiar with me and carry some bias towards me though this is the first video of yours I have ever watched, but I will go ahead and restate here our plans, which I stand by no matter how fantastical they may seem to you. It will be challenging to set the Optics for Moldova to move in as peacekeepers, as their military is so small, but the plan is to gift the Western portion of the Odessa region to Moldova in part in trade for Transnistria but also to serve as a neutral buffer zone between what will be new Russian territory and NATO/Romania as well as benefit the prosperity and security of Moldova. Russia recognizes that this is sound means toward long term security sustainability in that region.
Cheers.
“It is our medic who has been serving as Vladimir Putin’s personal IV tech + for some months now, after they started low dose accumulative poisoning him with VX nerve agent and other things. I am very pleased with how robust his health is right now.”
He looks remarkably healthy on it. Reminds me of how healthy Yulia Skripal looked on “Novichok”.
Dear Nightingale,
Really appreciate it.
Supports other lines of information about what is happening in the world right now. For those of us who have been paying attention and seeking in the dark, what you write about is not fantastical at all, but rather the logical steps taken by intelligent, sensible, rational groups of human beings, whom may be imperfect and even damaged, but do have an exopolitical, space based perspective on what is happening in the planet right now and what will happen in the years ahead as this solar system gradually opens up to the rest of the galaxy and an age of dangers and wonders.
Thank you so much. Looking forward reading you more. God bless!!!
Silly really to put light arms up against RF light arms peacekeepers in Transnistra. But ohh well theres a bridge too far as well. Soviet cache can go boom easily enough to deny its capture value.
Seems projection of weak force maybe thats the plan to hide lots more specialist operators underneath the 101st. Who knows.
The US has been flying Northrop Grumman RQ-48 Global Hawk drones over the centre of the Black Sea nearly every day for months. Typically, they fly out of southern Italy across Greece and then patrol in loops back and forth over the central Black Sea for hours. The US and NATO also fly US Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint, Boeing E-3B Sentry and Lockheed EP-3E Aries II Orions over eastern Romania between Constantia and the Ukraine/Moldovan border area – sometimes in perfect circles, other times more complex patterns, these are often refueled with in-air tanker aircraft. Another route they often patrol with a Bombardier Challenger 650 runs from Constantia north along the Moldovan border to approx Suceava and then to near Tășnad. They also often have US Army Beech RC-12X Guardrail aircraft over Lithuania patroling parallel to the Kaliningrad border and sometimes a US Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint circling the whole of Kaliningrad.
Top War has the flight path:
https://en.topwar.ru/204192-amerikanskij-bpla-zamechen-nad-chernym-morem-vo-vremja-popytok-ukrainskih-dronov-atakovat-sevastopolskuju-buhtu.html
American UAV spotted over the Black Sea during attempts by Ukrainian drones to attack the Sevastopol Bay
At least Moscow seems to be getting it’s arse into gear:
MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/. The Russian government has added 11 British Overseas Territories to its unfriendly countries list, the Russian Cabinet’s website said on Sunday.
“Eleven more British Overseas Territories have been added to the list [of territories] that supported the sanctions imposed by the UK on Russia. These are: Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Turks and Caicos Islands,” the message says.
It is noted that originally the list included only three British-controlled territories: the island of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and Gibraltar. “Thus, all 14 British Overseas Territories are now included in the unfriendly countries list,” the message reads.
https://tass.com/politics/1529749
“Eleven more British Overseas Territories have been added to the list [of territories] that supported the sanctions imposed by the UK on Russia. These are: Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Turks and Caicos Islands,”
The British have still territories are far away as the Indian Ocean and even Antarctic!
Looks like the British Raj never really left India in some ways.
And the Sun Never Set on the British Evil Empire.
This makes is much clearer:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Dniester-River
Logic would say that Russia will take Odessa and Transdniestria and enforce a humungous exclusion zone in the Black Sea.
Britain might have to change the words to Rule Britannia, maybe Cruel Britannia is more fitting, much like the Monty Python song Failed in Wales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule,_Britannia!
Wrong link:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Transdniestria
Gonzalo, I completely disagree with your assessment: Never, ever, the USA will affront Russia on EU soil. Even in the case of a Russian attack on a Nato country. Soon you will have proof of it when President Putin will be forced to shake Nato to the core.
They’ve done once it before and failed miserably.
It’s my impression that since WW2 the USA has never had to face off against an equally matched opponent. The exceptionalism exhibited by the USA and it’s military forces are based on conflicts where overwhelming might (shock and awe) was applied against nations with technically inferior capabilities and peoples who were not 100% committed to a fight. Of course, when the USA comes up against a technically inferior but truly committed opponent they are doomed, eg. Vietnam.
What the USA needs to realise, IMO, is that Russia (and China) are technically equal, if not superior, to the USA and are 110% committed to protecting their homeland. As such, I’d suggest they cannot be beaten.
Over the last several decades the USA approach to conflict has been to remove, as much as possible, the ‘man’ from the battlefield and conduct operations from behind the frontline. With a technically equal opponent this is no longer an advantage.
I’d also suggest that the commitment of the USA Government, people and military would dissolve when they realised their bluff and bravado didn’t work and the bodybags start piling up !.
“I’d also suggest that the commitment of the USA Government, people and military would dissolve when they realised their bluff and bravado didn’t work and the bodybags start piling up !”
Too right. The atrocious war on Viet Nam prodiced 50,000 (admitted) KIA over a decade, imagine how they would deal with 50K dead in a week, or even in a month!
Sorry Gonzalo, but you missed the train.
The US dares not to engage Russia directly. They will continue engaging Russia via proxies and terrorism because open warfare would lead to the unthinkable.
It has been know since at least 2002 that US carrier fleets are nothing more than giant floating targets. Reference the Millenium Games of 2002 in which a simulated attack on Iran was easily repeled. Also reference the Falkan Islands War and British naval loses to cheap subsonic(!) antiship missiles.
For the US to take on Russia in conventional warfare they would first have to stage the necessary forces and equipment in Europe, which would take at least several months if not longer. The US stockpile of artillery shells is insignificant and has been depleted by Ukraine, and they have solicited the manufacture of 12,000 shells a year to restore supplies – about what Ukraine consumes in two weeks. Note that this is maybe 10% of what Russia uses in the same period.
NATO forces are a joke, an uncordinated mess of different national armies that in many cases do not even speak the same language, let alone have practice in coordinated operations. Now add the deteriorating political situations across Europe and the history of two world wars: Europe is not going to be canon fodder for the US and UK.
Sorry, this is not very good analysis.
This is an argument that many put forth and I have never agreed with it.
If the US wanted to fight Russia, they could do it at any time. When you say that to anyone who subscribes to what Lira is saying, the inevitable response is ‘No, because the US wants Russia to start it’.
It is very clear that FUKUS does not want a war that they are directly involved in, they could have screamed that they were involved in Nord Stream or the Kerch Bridge, they could have screamed that they were involved in the recent attack on the port, did they?
No, they categorically denied it.
People are all so caught up in this whole WW3 War Games type scenario (which is exactly what the western ‘media’ wants).
The ‘west’ have no intention of going to war, now I’m not saying that it might not kick off by accident, but there is zero intention. This, as with all of their deceptions, is entirely to do with control (money and power). You are dealing with a pack of cowards, people who value their own lives far more than some scrap of land thousands of miles away. They will push this thing as far as they think they can without actually starting something, and then they will back off.
The only danger I see is that for every provocation that is ignored, the idiot class becomes more emboldened and tries something a little more provocative, and that could lead to something, but I suspect that will be more like one low yield tactical weapon, at which point everyone will very quickly step back.
The chances of some Joshua inspired exchange of hundreds of warheads is about as fictional as that movie. Obviously, it could happen, but I think the chances are better of winning the lottery jackpot 5 consecutive times.
JM2C
Things don’t appear to be going that well for Moldova which is good news for Russia:
https://tass.com/world/1529871
CHISINAU, October 30. /TASS/. Several opposition leaders have been detained during a protest action in Chisinau, a TASS correspondent reported on Sunday.
Among those detained are Dinu Turcanu, head of the Orhei district, his deputy Viktor Pertu, Orhei Mayor Pavel Verejanu, and honorary leader of the Sor opposition party Valery Klimenko.
According to the police, around 40 people have been detained on suspicion of trying to destabilize the situation in Chisinau.
Earlier in the day, police blocked the Stefan the Great Boulevard, along which thousands of protesters were marching to the city center. The demonstrators tried to break through the police cordon, tossing eggs at policemen.
Earlier, the Moldovan government’s emergencies commission, which was set up amid the energy crisis, imposed restrictions on protest actions and mass gatherings, allowing them only for not more than four hours on weekends. Following this decision, the police brought down a tent camp pitched by the opposition near the parliament and presidential administration buildings.
Protests have been held in Moldova since June demanding the resignation of the current leadership. People are protesting against the unprecedented growth of prices for gas and other energy resources and food, and against deteriorating living conditions. The current authorities are also criticized for their reluctance to negotiate gas prices with Russia and for political pressure on the opposition.
Nato’s agenda is the same as a roving pack of rabid dogs always “barking up the wrong tree.” Indiscriminate killing and terrorizing of citizens purely for sport or bloodlust, with drone attacks for mindless sabotage. Like a scary scene from a horror film, you know when the end is near.
But it only ends one way: evil dies like a parasite.
The other war – This would be the internal struggle among the neocons whether or not to blow up everything (nuclear war) once all the other cards have been played. Surely the saner factions, assuming they still exist, will argue it’s better to accept reality of a multipolar world and move on. But the hardcore psychopaths equate life with power and would likely prefer to annihilate the world than lose their current place. Right now, outside of maybe Jeffrey Sachs, Trump, and Musk (not that I align with most of their views but they don’t want Armagheddon) I don’t see any sane leadership on the horizon.
The following comes from one of Pepe Escobar’s sources . “On October 29, the Russian Federation suspended participation in the “grain deal” after the attack on the Black Sea Fleet.”
Under The Black Sea Grain Initiative, “far more Russian grain was to go to hungry, impoverished African and other nations.” Instead, the report states that those grains were delivered, via Ukraine to western countries; aka Italy, Germany, etc.
Moreover, “even before the conclusion of the(Grain) deal, experts feared that, under the pretext of grain supplies, Kyiv was trying to import weapons. With the unblocking of ports, the US Department of Defense has become more active in supplying Ukraine by sea, WP wrote,(Pepe’s source) without specifying whether we are talking about routes through neighboring countries or ineffective control. There are precedents. The FSB reported that It was a ship from Odessa that carried explosives to blow up the Crimean bridge and now the RF MoD has confirmed that the Ukrainians along with the UK have used the grain corridor to attack Sevastopol.”
There was a RAND paper out before the SMO, describing options for operations in Transnistria AND the Donbas. It sort of put Russia in a dilema of having to intervene in two theaters at the same time.
Now from what I understand, Moldova is full of Romanian NATO personel … there already is tension of an Modovan incursion into Transnistria, reigniting the 3 decade long standoff. There is also talk about Moldova unifying with Romania, and as such instantly becomming a EU/NATO member. The NATO part would need to be put on hold, until the Transnistria issue is resolved.
How things are developing in EU short/medium term, it is more likely that Moldova will go East, rather than West. A favorable deal with Russia could be advantagous, both from an Energy and market perspective.
Going forward, EU will have a hard time holding on to member states that sees a future emerging in the east vs the Ghetto currently developing in the west.
There has been speculation for some time that the collective west has been using the grain deal to import weapons into Odessa. This has supposedly been done by back-loading the empty grain ships heading to Odessa with various weapons and weapon systems. If so, and I tend to believe it, Russia has every right to suspend the grain deal.
If the deal between Russia and Turkey to build a gas hub in Turkey to replace the destroyed Nord Stream pipelines goes ahead, then both Russia and Turkey will need to cleanse the Black Sea of lingering marauders. The recent drone attacks look like another desperate attempt by the collective west to deny the inevitable.
I foresee a sea blockade of Odessa by Russian forces in the Black Sea. If this is combined with a land blockade by Russian forces moving north thru Nikolayev and then west to link up with the Trans-Dniester portion of Moldova, Odessa would be isolated and will eventually be forced to capitulate.
I do not see the boutique force of the 101st Airborne having much play in this, and nor do I see nuclear weapons having any play in this. On the first, I think I am right. On the second, I pray I am.
The Americans are no doubt itching to *destroy* Russia and return it to the era of “freedom and democracy” (aka, Capitalist rape and plunder) represented by the Yeltsin Regime.
Whether the Americans want to fight the Russia directly–or continue to hide like cowards behind the skirts of the Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians, and other NATO Nazi nations–is up for debate.
In many ways, this question is moot, as it is only a debate about tactics to achieve the same essential America ambition that all political factions in the USA support: to subjugate Russia (not to mention China, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and indeed the entire world) behind the Goebbelsian deception called America-style “freedom.”
America is the Fourth Reich–only more cowardly and devious than the Third Reich.
US is itching to fight the Russians, but not directly.