[dforest]

He isn’t going to start anything anywhere else. Geez, you goobers and your Daily Mail alarmism porn.

[marcusmaximus]

82nd and 101st Airborne are in Romania and watching and waiting.

[MalPearce]

Yeah, that’s exactly what the Putintards were saying right up to 21st February 2022.

Keep drinking the Kremlin’s knock-off kool aid.

[hanamizu]

He isn’t going to start anything anywhere else.

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Transnistria is a de facto ‘independent’ part of Moldova that has been self-governing for years. Moldova itself was the part of Romania that the USSR ‘absorbed’ after WWII. Moldova would like to unite with Romania. Problem being that Romania is now a part of NATO and still, of course claims Transnistria as its own.

The Russian army is already in Transnistria and has been for some time. It’s not impossible to imagine the Russian majority of the region asking to be reabsorbed into Russia.

Right now, Transnistria is only a problem for Moldova, not the U.S. If they join Russia, why should we care, it’s not as if Russia is getting all that much from it. But if Moldova reunites with Romania, Transnistria becomes an issue for NATO and an issue for the U.S.

(Right now I’m imagining Biden angrily trying to pronounce ‘Transnistria’ while he is condemning ‘Putin’s kleptocracy’.)