By ways unbeknownst to me, you are now in charge of the Moldovan military with the task to regain control over the Transnistrian territory.
How do you approach this situation?
By ways unbeknownst to me, you are now in charge of the Moldovan military with the task to regain control over the Transnistrian territory.
Step 1: wait
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Step 2: now that Ukraine has defeated Russia and joined NATO and there is no possible way for Russia to send reinforcements, blockade the region and starve out the Russian garrison
not like Russia can send reinforcements to it right now
First of all. Get a fucking air force.
> referendum to join Romania
> passes
> suddenly Russian troops on NATO territory
> nuke Moscow
> captcha: PGMMSC
Well for starters I'd realise that my countries armed forces are circus-tier without equipment and numbers. Plus the society is a significant more corrupt and poorer Romania with no real founding mythos so nobody is going to die for the oligarchs.
I don't know, stalling is the best option. If I get pressed then a saboteur campaign to knock the pseudo-government off-balance and agitate divides between the Russian soldiers and general population, especially the Ukrainian population. Like what happened in 2022 but much more extreme and partially focused on causing as many people to flee the area as possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Transnistria_attacks
>referendum to join Romania
You lose horribly and Russian influence in the country grows. Why is PrepHole like this?
>Why is PrepHole like this?
we beliebe in democracy
At this point, wouldn't literally any attack kind of fuck the russians?
>no land corridor to russia
>russian ships sailing black sea to the area under thread of ukie missile/drone attacks
Unless they have some kind of mega garrison there?
They have about 1200 troops there but the problem is they have a munitions stockpile that could potentially result in the largest non-nuclear explosion in history if it gets set off. Plus the people who live there are mostly Russian peasants so overall it's a negative value proposition even if you take it bloodlessly. You'd get to join Nato, but ironically the Ukraine war shows that they don't really need to join nato for nato protection
Surrender immediately.
t. moldovan who has seen our military
Are you really actually a Moldovan? I know almost nothing about your country bedsides this war making me aware of it's existence/borders. If I ever visit, what should I do/where should I go?
>I know almost nothing about your country
They are Romanian speaking Russians
>Are you really actually a Moldovan?
Sure am. To make things worse, I was born and have spent the first decade of my life in the city of Bender, Transnistria.
As for visiting - I genuinely do not understand why you'd do such a thing. It's a hellhole and everyone with a brain does their best to escape, so the Authentic Experience would be going to the airport and boarding the next flight to the civilized world.
If you do somehow find your way here - stay the hell away from Chisinau - it is a convenient place to sleep and eat, but the city itself is pretty grim (and our new mayor is very insistent on making it worse).
It's a rural country, so go roam the countryside, drink good wine on the cheap, eat roasted piggies, enjoy the aesthetics of post-soviet decline if that's your thing, chat up the old gnomish lady in what used to be a shtetl, go paragliding in Orheiul Vechi. That kind of stuff.
I know some of the better wineries offer a sort of ~rural retreat~ with good wine and traditional cuisine. Do check out the wine cellars, we are very proud of them.
Not sure how things are nowadays, but we have this unfinished Soviet command bunker near Soldanesti which I went to about a decade ago, pretty PrepHole stuff.
Get a local buddy - we can't into English. Hell, some of us can't into Romanian even though it's the official language.
Any prospects for improvement?
There's a certain Belarus vibe to what you say, if you want to see it.
t. Balt born in USSR
>Any prospects for improvement?
this is ex-USSR, there is no hope here
Wasn't Moldova a Zelda boss?
I think it's a river in Czechia actually
You have excellent English. Howd you learn it?
The same way you learn anything - you put your nose to the grindstone and put in the hours. Up to about B1 you can get away with simply working through your textbooks, after that it's all immersion. I did have the luck of being both bilingual (Russian and Romanian) and an outcast, having abandoned the real world for the Interwebs in general and PrepHole in particular at the age of twelve (hard to belive it's been over a decade since then). But in general there are no ~secrets~ to language learning - you just have to consistently put in the effort and immerse yourself in that language.
You sure you want us russophones in your country?
>russophones in your country
Posts like this are why PrepHole moggs shitholes like 4chan and snoozefests like /int/. Thanks for the info Moldovanon.
Btw your president is cute!
To amend my post about visiting: if you find yourself down south in Gagauzia, DO NOT discuss politics with the locals under any circumstance. It's ziggerified beyond belief. They do, however, have good wine.
Step1: Makes lots and lots of Chlorine gas
Step2: use my limited amount of money to buy Super Tucanos, if I don’t have enough I might have to buy Pucaras instead
Step3: I use my Tucanos to drop chlorine gas bombs and incendiary’s along the entire skinny strip that makes Transnistria
Step4: profit?
Step5: breed Maria
Step6: acquire free Bumblebee (but hose out the gassed chuds out of it first)
>Step5: breed Maria
It's "Maia".
My bad, I’ll still go through with step5 tho
As for the country itself - well, it's a shithole.
Take Romania, fuck it up, transfer it to the USSR, fuck it up soviet style, take it out of the USSR, then fuck it up western style. We speak hillbilly Romanian and Russian, produce just about nothing of value, and are largely concerned with getting the hell out of here. On this 300km x 150km piece of land we have somehow managed to have a civil war and create two breakaway regions.
Our biggest claim to fame is that we make wine. It's reasonably good if you are in the know, and much cheaper than the French stuff.
While I am genuinely unsure about whether we actually are a country or not - we have this weird-ass political system that takes a very hetergenous population and just lets them do what they want. Want to live in Russian Moldova? Go to Transnistria. Want to live in Moldovan Moldova? Republica Moldova it is. Want to live in Romanian Moldova? Iasi is three hours away and Romanian citizenships are being handed out like candy.
What else is there to say, ugh. We are poor and our gun laws are ABSOLUTE SHIT (but despite everything, I am about to buy a '41 Nagant revolver, ain't that nice?). We also occasionally send fun guys to Eurovision, so there is that.
Here's a question for you, is sex trafficking still a concern in Moldova these days?
I don't think it is? At least I've never heard of or encountered it personally, and I can't recall any newspapers mentioning it recently. I might just not be paying attention though.
Mэй, oмyлe, я ж eщё c бюpoкpaтaми вoюю. Из кapтинoк y мeня пoкa чтo тoлькo cкaн cпpaвки oт нapкoлoгa. Cкыpбы пo oтнoшeнию к этим тoвapищaм y мeня, кoнeчнo, мнoгo, нo кoгдa-нибyдь paзpeшeниe oни выдaть дoлжны. Boт тoгдa и бyдeт вaм, пaнe, и нaгaн, и oтчёт из тиpa.
I have a strong suHispanicion that just beatings won't be enough.
Moя жeнщинa, nu cunosc atâta rusă cât să îți răspund. Sunt ardelean și am acces la Duolingo, înțelege-mă.
COME HOME WHITE MAN
No, keep him where he belongs. In fact stop all grants of Romanian citizenships to Moldovans. Only after uniting can they be allowed in.
We need Pro-Romanian Moldovans to influence their political system as a majority, a priority which can't be fulfilled if we allow them to emigrate. We need to syphon the Pro-Russian ones away instead, civilizing them along the way, "re-educating them" if you will. The zigger zombies can be manipulated by money flawlessly.
Transnistria btw is out of the question, useless to begin with. It would be better bargained away for southern lands with ukraine.
>but despite everything, I am about to buy a '41 Nagant revolve
Pune poze
Yeah your military is stuck in the 70’s, but transonic trials is still in the 50’s
I think you have a shot, the ruskis are preoccupied anyway
Transnistria* fuck I guess Apple autocorrect doesn’t recognize their independence
Sit around looking as harmless as you can until you get a good shot at a decapitation strike. It's the usual strongman-ruled dictatorship so Transnistria itself likely won't do much with him and his inner circle gone. Then move in to encircle and contain the Russian forces, but leave the door open for them to leave/defect if they feel like it. With Moldova's armed forces being somewhat tested it's probably better to just let the Russians just sit around twiddling their thumbs in a barrack there and a city outskirt there than to straight up attack them. Do let your troops know though that if the Russians start any shit they're free to shoot back with everythign they have. No passing it up the chain of command, no attempts to de-escalate, any little green men try being cute they just stomp that shit down (because having the Russians start it will likely do wonders for your morale, just set things up to avoid a Crimea 2014 scenario).
Also ask Ukraine for help, considering they just months fighting the Russians and have the equipment to do so. In fact, I would be very surprised if towards the end of this war we don't see a joint Ukrainian and Moldovan force with the goal of retaking Transnistria.
Despite the way that Transistria was formed by the fall of the Soviet Union, the fact of the matter is that the modern state is a puppet of Russia and a convenient way to keep troops close to the Moldovan and Ukrainian borders. Seeing as Russia is at war with Ukraine, Transistria's continued existence as that puppet is a threat to both it and Moldova.
I'm not sure Ukraine is really keen on stretching their resources even further, but it probably won't hurt to ask and you could probably get some good advice at least.
Invest heavily into border control and then just close the border which is perfectly legal to do and not an act of war
gift chudsister to Ukraine (it has a large ukrainian and pidorussian minority), join romania
Option 1: Set up large speakers on the border and blast the Numa Numa song (the band is Moldovan) on repeat until russian garrison an heros
Option 2: lob artillery at that massive ordinance stockpile and cook it off (whilst also pointing 4k cameras at it to make good webms for later)
Option 3: Send in the Gypsies. The entire territory's vehicles will be up on blocks missing their engines inside of 5 minutes
I will form a blood pact with the Vampire Counts. I roll for diplomacy.
It's time the U.N recognizes that we are valid.
NO RUSSIA MAN IN TRANSNISTRIA MOLDOVA
How hot is that conflict anyway?
Frozen.
shoot them, theres like a battalion of russians and some flaky militia
>send out the public call for people to join the Moldavian Foreign Legion
>promise free millsurp loot for all volunteers
> Starts skirmishes
> Keep mixing truth and lies and keep fight to a minimum scale
> Claim that Russia is trying to destry me, everyone will believe me
> Build support by filming the destruction of small ennemy units, monetize the videos, use every cent to buy better gear for the troops
> Make friends wit the west for support
> Keep at it for years
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Profit?
Dissolve Moldova, retake budjak and chernivtsi oblast then reinstate Bessarabia
Russia has long been the one actually pushing for Transnistria to be absorbed back into Moldova as quickly as possible. And they do it because they know that the Russian population would absolutely wreck the countries western alignment even harder than the local zigger population.
To make things more complicated Transnistria gets it's gas for FREE from Russia which in turn is used to power Moldova.
is that why they refuse to remove their army from moldovan territory?