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BBC interviews are always the worst. The sheer smugness and arrogance of their interviewers is insufferable, they act not only like they think they're smarter and morally superior but as if they were conducting an interrogation of a criminal. The only way to respond to these assholes is like daddy Lukashenka did:

His videos are what pushed me over the edge on China and finally got me to start researching the real development of material conditions in China, and also read what Chinese communists themselves say instead of just taking western propaganda and ultra-left "Maoist" talking points at face value. I will forever be grateful to him for helping me complete my deprogramming from anti-China brain worms.

Historically, has a military campaign that is almost exclusively bombing ever succeeded?

No. Wars cannot be and have never been won by air power alone. It is a fundamental basic military fact that air power by itself can't take and hold ground, which is what is ultimately required to win a war. As we are also seeing in Ukraine today, all of the fancy tech that today's militaries have is still secondary in importance to the basic infantryman who is the backbone of any war. Second is artillery by the way. Air power, missiles, drones, etc. are tertiary at best.

And if they really think that they will succeed with this approach where everyone else in history who has tried this failed (if sheer scale of bombing won wars then the US would have won Korea and Vietnam, but they lost the latter and fought to a stalemate in the former, and only because they actually deployed very large amount of ground forces for the Korean war) shows an utter illiteracy in military understanding. It shows that they have fully bought into their own bullshit, drank their own koolaid about American air supremacy having been what won the Iraq war rather than what it really was that did it which was massive amounts of CIA bribes.

If they want to win any kind of war they will have to deploy boots on the ground and we've seen very clearly not just over this past year but ever since a much weaker Hezbollah first kicked them out of Lebanon that nowadays the Zionist genocide forces are godawful when it comes to ground combat. Once upon a time in the 60s and 70s that may have been different as they still had a lot of Soviet WW2 veterans but all they've done for decades now is bully and murder an occupied population armed with sticks and stones and homemade weapons.

The Baltics don't need food, they are so civilized and advanced they have learned to subsist solely off of NATO bases, pro-fascist historical revisionism, and hatred of Russia.

They didn't need any referendum when they fast tracked Finland and Sweden into NATO and they won't need them in this case either if they can manage to keep their puppets in power and their grip on the country's institutions through their network of NGOs.

Avoided? More like delayed.

I'm surprised there haven't been posts about it. My guess is that people are hesitant to call it out in case the story turns out to be true, but I have no such qualms.

Not at all. The reason i haven't posted about this is simply because for me it was just too dumb and too obviously bullshit to even bother addressing.

I appreciate you making this post though in case anyone was actually considering taking this low effort psyop seriously.

You're completely right. And i fully agree that we should make every effort we can to be prepared for the inevitable, which is why we absolutely should be studying and learning from the struggle of the resistance forces in and around Palestine, because once things get serious our state will eventually employ the same methods against revolutionaries as the Zionists are using against the resistance.

the US is no Porte and there's no equivalent to Tzarist Russia or Austria now to use to our leverage

I wouldn't even make that comparison. Romania was never integrated with the Ottoman empire anywhere near to the extent that it is today in the Western imperialist system. Now the political, media and educational institutions are all so thoroughly captured in a way that the Ottomans never in their wildest dreams could have imagined doing. The reason why even the very idea of such "leverage" is nonsense is because to the empire, to Washington and Brussels, the notion of neutrality is anathema. They cannot and will not abide it, they are the blob, they will either absorb or destroy you.

We saw what they did to Ukraine when Yanukovich tried to play both sides and remain in the middle. Even a country as powerful as Turkey can only occasionally manage to demonstrate some semblance of opportunistic autonomy and that's only because they got lucky and even though they offered themselves up on a platter, the Europeans were still too racist to let them into the EU which would have meant complete subjugation.

God its depressing to think the fucking phanariots had more agency then our current ruling class does

Depressing but it is an important realization to come to. It is the starting point for a realistic understanding of the current situation that Romania finds itself in, and only once we understand how things are can we begin to formulate a plan to change them. When you understand what needs to be done is where the revolutionary optimism begins, so don't lose hope!

In an ideal world we'd have something like the Union State

In a different world things might be different, yes. I understand your sentiments, i even partly share them to some extent, but we can't just ignore the reality of present geopolitical conditions and act like this is something that would be happening in a vacuum. We can't just say "if reality was not what it is, then this and that would be the ideal course of action" - that is idealism and it gets us nowhere - at least nowhere good.

I just wanted to hope that we didn't sell our souls to Brussels for nothing

Unfortunately i think that we have done just that, and we have not yet seen the worst of the consequences of that disastrous deal with the devil, or if you'll pardon me bringing out a proverb from my grandma: "nu se fură tămâie de la dracu", you're never going to come out on top selling your soul even if you think you're being clever. This unification may very well happen and you may get your wish but i hope for both Moldova and Romania's sake that it doesn't, that the Moldovans will rise up to resist it, because otherwise it will only further entrench the power of Brussels and Washington over our two peoples while putting Romania on the front line of WWIII.

Let me just say first off that i agree with you about the microstates issue, and i do think that you are right about it being beneficial for countries to unite together to better resist imperialism and colonialism. That being said, the idea of present day Romania absorbing Moldova is deeply horrifying to me, it would be a catastrophe for the people of Moldova as they would immediately become NATO's new front line in the war against Russia. So long as Romania is a loyal vassal of Brussels and Washington and so long as its ruling class is top to bottom Atlanticist, russophobic compradors who do nothing but worship American and German boots any sort of unification is unacceptable and should be prevented at all costs.

If any kind of reunification is to take place there it should be with Russia so that Moldova can join the Eurasian sphere which is where the future is and where the most economic development will be happening going forward. That way Russia can help them like they are helping the liberated Donbass now to start to recover from the economic devastation of the last 30+ years since the destruction of socialism. Because its only future with the "West" and "Europe" is as yet another neocolony to be exploited and drained of everything of value by the big western European powers while being turned into a militarized NATO outpost like so many other eastern European states that were absorbed into the neoliberal EU abomination.

Romania and Poland are well on their way to becoming second and third Ukraines after the West has used up all the Ukrainians, why on earth would any sane Moldovan want to enter into this suicide pact? I think the whole discussion about whether or not Romanians and Moldovans are "one people" is irrelevant. That may even be the case, i grew up hearing that my whole childhood so the thought is hard to shake, but i really have no interest in having a whole ethno-linguistic debate about national identity, because regardless it does NOT justify unification under a Western puppet state that is currently locked without any foreseeable hope of escape in the neoliberal, totalitarian prison of the EU and being increasingly occupied and militarized by NATO.

Why would you want to doom the poor Moldovans to that fate? At least now they still have a hope of kicking out their US installed comprador government, even if they'd need a little help from Russia to do it. If they are our brothers then let's be happy for them that they have not yet been swallowed up by the Leviathan like we have.

P.S. I think the point where you are most wrong is the idea that Romania could just decide to turn away from the West once it has gotten what it wants from them. That's not how neocolonialism and imperial vassalage works. Point me to one instance where that has worked, where a country could just freely decide to exit US vassalage after its entire institutions and elite were captured and remade in the West's image. You think you're being clever bending the knee to the empire because you can opportunistically benefit from it but in the end it is always the empire that wins and you lose, and once they have you they won't ever willingly let go. For Romania to escape the EU and NATO at this point would take an all out war of decolonization.

Thank you so much for writing this. As a Romanian myself i was appalled to read that take by a fellow comrade here, but unfortunately not in the least surprised. The indoctrination in Romania into "Greater Romania" irredentism and nationalist mythology is incredibly pervasive and nearly impossible to escape. It's the one thing that has a larger consensus in Romanian society than anti-Roma racism. It took me a long time to grow out of these myths that are drilled into us from the time we are young children, and i was only able to take a step back and look at the whole thing objectively because i haven't lived there for what is by now a majority of my life. I can only imagine how hard it is not to fall in line with this thinking if you live there and are surrounded by a society which almost to the last person buys into this and where all sides of the media spectrum are constantly pushing the idea of ("re-")unification regardless of the sentiments of the people in Moldova itself. So please don't judge the OP of that comment too harshly, i have hope that they will take this as an opportunity to learn and reflect.