I’ve seen episodes here and there on PBS and watched some tonight (up with sick kid). Amazing production values. Would be cool if Netflix picked up production for additional seasons.
Really solid series.
I hope somebody in our military is paying a lot of extremely close attention. I know there are units and groups studying drone warfare, and out there working to train our troops to counter them (we will see them when/if we invade Venezuela).
Russia deployed its full hybrid warfare toolkit against Moldova in 2025 - energy blackmail, election interference, separatist proxies, even "denazification" rhetoric echoing Ukraine invasion pretexts.
It failed. Pro-European forces won parliamentary elections with 50%+ despite Kremlin-funded disinformation and vote-buying schemes.
Chisinau severed all Russian gas imports after Gazprom's cutoff, diversifying to the EU and Azerbaijan instead.
A new military strategy explicitly names Russia as the primary threat and mandates NATO-standard rearmament.
The pro-Russian Gagauzia leader sits in jail while Transnistria's gas-starved economy teeters toward reintegration talks.
What remains of Russian influence? A bankrupt Transnistrian enclave and a few thousand demoralized troops Moscow cannot sustain.
Thirty-three years after independence, Moldova is finally escaping Moscow's orbit. Not through war, but through the systematic dismantling of every lever Russia once possessed.
Frontline report: Moldova escapes Moscow's orbit through slow strangulation of Russian influence - Euromaidan Press
If Bradley actually goes up in front of Congress next week, do we think they'll get the original guy that resigned as well?
And will Bradley take the fall? They didn't have that little get-together last night just for shits and giggles, that was all about getting stories straight.
They moved tens of thousands of men and dozens of ships and a lot of aircraft to prepare for their war against Venezuela and it might come undone becauee somebody couldn’t help but kill a couple of dudes floating on some wreckage.
The crime is that if you blow up a ship or shoot down an aircraft, and there are survivors in the water, they are no longer considered combatants, and therefore you cannot kill them legally. I don’t know if it was Hegseth or Bradley, but somebody tried to claim they were legitimate targets because they could call their buddies to come pick up the drugs. That is insane. People clinging to pieces of a blown up boat are not thinking “oh, I’m gonna call my buddies to come get the drugs and continue on their way to America. “
We prosecuted Germans and Japanese after World War II, who had killed Americans and other allies in similar situations. We even hung U-Boat commanders who machine gunned people in the water.
And that’s before we get into the question of whether we are actually at war with Venezuela or not. Hint: we are not at war. We also cannot designate them as terrorist based on 911 because I’m fairly certain Venezuela was not involved with 911.