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Teaser - Will Russia Invade Moldova to Seize Ukraine?

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Gaslit Nation

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.74.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Both Moldova and Georgia are currently in the news, and this is important for people to understand,

0:11.5

because Moldova fears that Russian forces are going to try to occupy the country, invade

0:19.7

the country, to try to create further destabilization

0:23.7

in the region in Putin's war against Ukraine and the West. Very practically, Russia,

0:29.8

they have forces in Transnistria now, Russian forces. They've basically pulled a Crimea on it

0:34.8

to snap off that region of Moldova for themselves.

0:38.3

And they want the Russian Empire to go from Transnistria to Odessa, Ukraine, keep Crimea, and basically block Ukraine entirely from the sea.

0:52.1

So Ukraine would be a landlocked country.

0:56.5

And that, of course, would be horrific.

1:01.5

It'd be a massive economic warfare. It would cut Ukraine off from extremely important,

1:05.2

lucrative trade routes that it needs to prop up its economy, all those jobs and resources lost, never mind all the people living under a Russian brutal genocidal dictatorship.

1:11.4

So Moldova has been, including the president, have been ringing, has been ringing the alarm saying,

1:16.5

we see heightened activity of Russian forces trying to take over our country, seize the country,

1:21.1

in their ongoing war of Ukraine.

1:22.9

So they want to basically pressure Ukraine from the West.

1:26.6

Most of Russia's war is in the eastern region of Ukraine in Crimea, the east and south.

1:34.4

And so by the Russians going into Moldova from their foothold in the region they seized years ago in Transnistria,

1:42.7

they would then be able to launch military operations on

1:47.9

Western Ukraine. From the west to the east, they would just take over and then they would

1:52.3

push to Kiev and the Ukraine is gone. It would be really nice if our representatives could be consistent. Like if you are anti-corruption,

2:06.1

you need to be anti-corruption like across the board and not, you know, invite in a horrible

2:12.1

dictator maniac when you feel like somehow, I guess, the calculations that that will somehow get you

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