Richard A wrote:But as with all asterisks used in such contexts, we all know what it said!
Richard A wrote:The same friend - who has studied Russia and, before that, the Soviet Union and so knows what he's talking about - who said that Putin has no designs on the Baltic states also said that Moldova should be worried. I agree. They have a breakaway area whose people would prefer to be part of Russia. While I was interested to discover that the people Russia liberated in Abkhazia aren't actually ethnic Russians but Abkhazians, with their own language and everything, the people in Transnistria really are Russians. And the Moldavian SSR really did only come into existence as a result of Romania having Bessarabia taken off it as a penalty for backing the wrong side in World War I. I've wondered for a while whether Putin, if he found taking Kyiv too difficult, would try to head along the coast to try to link Crimea up with Transnistria. And possibly the rest of Moldova as well as a reminder to think carefully before they pick sides.
I guess we'll see.
Arneb wrote:I am shocked, shocked. How can a responsible, upstanding soldier serving his country smoke in the vicinity of high explosives? As we used to say in Germany, wenn das der Führer wüsste!
Arneb wrote:Absolutely! They sorely needed that reminder.
Richard A wrote:Well, it would kind of spoil your holiday!
Richard A wrote:I see Russia has - predictably - said the Security Service of Ukraine did it. Not impossible, but a number of allies of Putin have made business enemies as well as political ones. And it seems a reach for the SBU to be able to carry out an assassination in Moscow. Crimea possibly, but Moscow?
Мастер wrote:Note the last three words in Russian.
Again, it is very impolite to use the familiar form, иди, instead of идите, with someone you don't know.
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