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Putin 'on brink of new land grab' to defy West with possible announcement imminent on annexing breakaway Moldovan region Transnistria
Daily Mail ^ | 2/23/2024 | Will Stewart

Posted on 02/23/2024 5:23:36 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Putin is reportedly on the brink of a new land grab to defy the West by possibly announcing soon that Russia is taking control of a breakaway Moldovan region.

There is speculation that unofficial state Transnistria is poised to make an appeal to Putin to join Russia.

The landlocked strip along the Dniester River is wedged between Moldova and Ukraine.

Putin already has a 'peacekeeping' force of up to 2,000 troops in the territory which Russia says overwhelmingly wishes to be incorporated by Moscow. There are also likely thousands of Russian paramilitaries on the ground.

A fear is Putin will use a speech at the Russian Federal Assembly on February 29 to green light annexation.

One day earlier a 'congress' of local politicians has been called in Transnistria amid speculation they will issue a formal appeal to join Russia. A similar congress previously led to such a demand.

Local opposition politician Gennadiy Chorba claims the plot to grab Transnistria is in progress, as part of Putin's re-election campaign.

This will give Putin a supposed 'legal' power to step into Transnistria which has been in limbo since the end of the Soviet Union.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: marcusmaximus

The narrative has changed. Until recently, Putin was taking a beating. Now he’s taking over Europe.


21 posted on 02/23/2024 7:14:20 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Transnistria Is Moldova.


22 posted on 02/23/2024 7:21:20 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: FlyingEagle

Transnistria in 3 days! Bring your parade uniforms!


23 posted on 02/23/2024 7:25:57 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: ansel12

Well they only “freely” join NATO after election interference to bring out a western desired outcome


24 posted on 02/23/2024 7:42:02 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: marcusmaximus
Either the Transnistrians (or whatever they call themselves) are earnestly desiring to be part of Russia or not. If not, then annexing it brings risk of subversion and rebel activities that would be a drag on Russian resources when they really don't need more headaches.

But contra Western propaganda, I wouldn't be surprised if they want to join Russia, just as Crimea and the eastern oblasts in the Ukraine preferred contra Western wishful thinking.

What's really interesting about this - apparently no one has looked at a map. Transnistria is a narrow strip wedged between Moldova and the western boundary of the Ukraine. If the Ukraine made a significant effort they could overrun it, and I can't imagine how Russia could resupply it given the hostile NATO powers all around it. I would have thought the whole question of Transnistria better left unresolved until after the war, from a Russian perspective. Perhaps they now believe that is not far off?

25 posted on 02/23/2024 7:47:59 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: dforest

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

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


26 posted on 02/23/2024 7:51:27 AM PST by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson, A Scandal in Bohemia)
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To: rottweiller_inc

NATO has an open door policy. Countries choose to walk in.

Russia has an open door policy for its neighbors. If 10% of a population is Russian and the country has stuff that Kleptorossya wants, Russia will drag it kicking and screaming thru the door.


27 posted on 02/23/2024 7:56:14 AM PST by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson, A Scandal in Bohemia)
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To: MalPearce

Transnistria doesn’t have a seaport or a funtioning international airport good luck resupplying any rebellion. SQUISH!


28 posted on 02/23/2024 8:04:32 AM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: marcusmaximus

This was made up out of thin air by one of DE MINIMUS’ standard “go to” propaganda sources.


29 posted on 02/23/2024 8:07:21 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MA)
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To: MalPearce

If their people want to choose a leader who doesn’t want NATO and the west interferes in their (i.e. cheating to win) election to elect someone who will join NATO then, no, it’s a not free choice.


30 posted on 02/23/2024 8:07:44 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: marcusmaximus

“82nd and 101st Airborne are in Romania and watching and waiting.”
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Wow, ‘De Minimus’ is having yet another wet dream.


31 posted on 02/23/2024 8:09:34 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MA)
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To: marcusmaximus

bkmk


32 posted on 02/23/2024 8:12:21 AM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: marcusmaximus

33 posted on 02/23/2024 8:32:11 AM PST by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: dforest

He isn’t going to start anything anywhere else.


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’.)


34 posted on 02/23/2024 8:42:10 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: rottweiller_inc

Who, what are you talking about?


35 posted on 02/23/2024 8:52:00 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: marcusmaximus
The Russians have an excellent reason for potentially doing this:

The Cobasna ammunition depot has been referred to as one of the largest[3] if not the largest ammunition depot in Eastern Europe[2] and contains up to 20,000 tons of Soviet-era weapons from the 14th Guards Army of the USSR and also from the former states of Czechoslovakia and East Germany. Currently, it is guarded by around 1,500 Russian soldiers.

Ukraine nor NATO has any rights to gets grubby hands on the ammo there.

36 posted on 02/23/2024 9:03:22 AM PST by Kazan
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To: marcusmaximus

UK Daily Tabloid


37 posted on 02/23/2024 9:05:00 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: ansel12

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/soros-funded-election-interference-network-uncovered-in-europe/


38 posted on 02/23/2024 9:15:00 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
It must be fun to be in the crosshairs of US style democracies.

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https://youtu.be/z-YwYonxocM?si=Ej1RkcC7EFqX7onj

39 posted on 02/23/2024 9:17:16 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Kazan

All the better reason to rid the nest of old COMMIES, “they’ll blow up good”.


40 posted on 02/23/2024 9:18:38 AM PST by WellyP (question!)
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