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#Romania: Kremlin's credible threats at Moldova & What is to be done? Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures.

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#Romania: Kremlin's credible threats at Moldova & What is to be done? Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-russian-official-teases-next-192835625.html


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This is CBSI on the World. I'm John Batcher with Antonio Colabasano, a geopolitical futures

0:41.8

analyst. It's a subscription side I recommend. Antonio writes from Bucharest. Romania is

0:48.0

a country much in the news about Ukraine, conflict. Let's begin with the sharp end of the

0:53.0

stick. Again, Antonio, in the news is Russia or allies of Vladimir Putin making remarks

0:59.8

about Moldova next. Is that a credible threat to your knowledge? Is Moldova vulnerable to

1:05.6

that as Moldova taking defensive maneuvers to stop that? Is this important to Bucharest

1:11.2

that it not happen?

1:13.2

Well, this has always been an option since Ukraine were started, actually. And it is true

1:20.2

that Russia dislikes the current government in Kishno. It is true that Russia has the

1:26.3

ability to control part of Moldova, the frozen conflict and transnistria. And through that

1:34.0

it controls whatever Kishno in Moldova is in Kishno is the capital of Moldova. So the

1:41.2

threat has some substance as long as Russia can get out of eastern Ukraine and get into

1:50.2

southern Ukraine and attack forward. I don't see a way for Russia to really attack Moldova

2:00.5

other than the usual political attacks right now on land. So it would need to maybe go

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