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Wicked Blue

(6,697 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 08:43 PM Mar 2022

Belarus president stands in front of battle map indicating Moldova invasion plans

Images have emerged of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko standing in front of a battle map that appears to show a planned invasion of Moldova, along with Ukraine.

Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was reportedly addressing his security council Tuesday while standing in front of a battle map of Ukraine.

The map appeared to show troop movement plans and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, as well as targets in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria.

Some of the Russian lines of attack in the map have already taken place, while others are yet to occur, including an incursion into Moldova — a former Soviet country and Ukraine’s neighbor to the south — from the port city of Odessa.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/596409-belarus-president-stands-in-front-of-battle-map-indicating-moldova

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Belarus president stands in front of battle map indicating Moldova invasion plans (Original Post) Wicked Blue Mar 2022 OP
Well, hell - that's not going to win him any friends. dhol82 Mar 2022 #1
No one will call these stooges smart. C_U_L8R Mar 2022 #2
Is not Moldova a NATO country? ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2022 #3
According to Google.. they are NATO Srkdqltr Mar 2022 #4
They are friendly, but they are not members. Renew Deal Mar 2022 #8
Why go after Moldova? sakabatou Mar 2022 #5
To reassemble the lost children of the Soviet Union. Renew Deal Mar 2022 #7
That I already know. sakabatou Mar 2022 #10
There's a little strip of Moldova adjacent to Ukraine called Transdnistria. Igel Mar 2022 #9
Awfully ambitious... EarthFirst Mar 2022 #6

C_U_L8R

(45,715 posts)
2. No one will call these stooges smart.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 08:49 PM
Mar 2022

But they will call them war criminals, hung by their necks or their feet. Makes no diff.

Renew Deal

(82,938 posts)
8. They are friendly, but they are not members.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 10:45 PM
Mar 2022

Official relations between Moldova and NATO began in 1992 when Moldova joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. However, as Moldova's neutrality is enshrined in its Constitution, there are no official plans for Moldova to join the organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova%E2%80%93NATO_relations

Igel

(36,168 posts)
9. There's a little strip of Moldova adjacent to Ukraine called Transdnistria.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 10:51 PM
Mar 2022

It's recognized by one, maybe 2-3 countries. It's got Russian troops stationed there, sort of stranded because there's no fly-over privileges and the "country's" landlocked. It's like S. Ossetia and Abkhazia, one of those recognized only because Putin has decreed it. Only those subject to Putin-worship abide by his diktaty.

The arrow points there, under a not overly generous interpretation of the map. It would be a place that Putin would like to put additional troops (and relieve those that are already there), but, again, they're sort of stranded. They come in go in dribs and drabs, not as units.

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