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.
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He isn’t going to start anything anywhere else. Geez, you goobers and your Daily Mail alarmism porn.
none of this makes any sense, why?
This is 2024, countries expanding their borders really just doesn’t make any logical sense. What do they gain?
“Reportedly” “speculation”, etc. Why post this garbage that someone else is making up? You have an imagination. Make up your own BS and sling it against the wall. It’s real easy, just like all you disinfo sources do. Like this, “reportedly” marcusmacimus is a paid FBI goon spying on FR. “Speculation is he has been doing this for years”. See?
“This is 2024, countries expanding their borders really just doesn’t make any logical sense. What do they gain?”
This is 2024, NATO expanding their borders really just doesn’t make any logical sense. What do they gain?
See how that works?
what do they gain? more American taxpayer dollars and armament for the Ukraine moneypit. everything we do for ukraine weakens these United States of America. that is, after all, what the globalusts want and putin is happy to oblige.
Well let’s see, the region is comprised of native Russians, they want to join Russia and Russia wants them to join, its a tiny region not like the whole country of Moldova. What’s the problem? It’s 2024, country lines might need to be redrawn to accommodate local ethnicity and politics. Should eastern Washington and Oregon not be allowed to join Idaho bc their states are run by big city liberals that don’t represent them? Should Biden send in the army to quell this future annexation between states? I say let region’s merge like companies
The Neocons were threatening Transnistra earlier in the war (along with Kaliningrad, access to the Baltic Sea), so I guess this may be Russia’s initial answer to them.
Maybe Obozo told Putin to go on and take it.
82nd and 101st Airborne are in Romania and watching and waiting.
Ukrainian F-16 are ready for Russia to make their move on Moldova. Russian IL-76s will not make it over Romanian territory, either.
Gosh…MarcusMinimus, I wonder why Putin didn’t “land grab” ALL of Georgia in 2008?
No, I don’t see how you confuse Russia conquering and absorbing countries, with free countries joining organizations.
Unkraine won’t have any F-16s left by the time Russia gets there.
Is Hunter on the Board of Transnistria Oil as well?
LOL!
The population of Transnistria is only 29% Russian (2015 census). As in Donetsk, the ethnic Russian minority controls the territory with the help of the Russian army.
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