PFYT2This exact tactic was used with the breakaway provinces of Georgia. Plenty on this at my big tech censored blog. Bottom line? This has been done previously by Russia- The NATO nations carry on about it, but, they’ve made the same types of moves globally. It should be noted, according to this linked report, that […]
Russia demands NATO pullout from Bulgaria, Romania Russia is calling for “withdrawal of foreign forces, hardware and arms” from countries that were not NATO members before 1997. Both Bulgaria and Romania were formerly part of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact that was created to rival NATO during the Cold War years. The two east European countries […]
Location, location, location As you can all see Romania is on the Black Sea. Sharing a border with Ukraine and Moldova. And other states that have been in the news lately. Curiously Moldova has just declared a ‘state of emergency’ Moldova is apparently delinquent in it’s gas payments. “[State energy company] Moldovagaz will pay Gazprom […]
TASS BRUSSELS, January 12. /TASS/. A meeting of the Russia-NATO Council exposed a large number of differences on key issues, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told a news conference on Wednesday. “The conversation was rather sincere, direct, in-depth and busy, but at the same time it revealed a large number of differences on fundamental issues,” […]
I’m quite sure this has western backing. That’s my relatively educated and insightful opinion. A“protest” of this size coming out of nowhere? Not credible. Let’s see what the Atlantic Council has to say? Kazakhstan rarely makes international headlines. How unusual are these protests, and why should the West be watching? Very unusual. We haven’t seen […]
Truthfully, I can’t say with any certainty. Highly doubt anyone really can. But, we can share some thoughts on the subject, right? Seems to me the US and friends want to ( would like to) increase sanctions against Russia using the mechanism provided by the nominally (but not really) independent SWIFT. That is one possibility […]
Watching moves on the global chess board Interesting: Moscow is in talks with Ankara about assistance in developing a fifth-generation fighter aircraft, Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Director Dmitry Shugayev told Sputnik on Sunday. “Russia has repeatedly expressed readiness to render assistance to the Republic of Turkey [in developing a fifth-generation fighter aircraft], and […]
In response to NATO’s expulsion of 8 Russian mission members Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that his country is suspending its mission to NATO. He said the move was a response to the expulsion of eight Russian staff at the military alliance’s mission in the Russian capital. Lavrov said staff at the mission […]