> Russia doesn't currently have the expeditionary capability to put even a single tank division into Bulgaria or Romania. They don't need to if any of many loo

> Russia doesn't currently have the expeditionary capability to put even a single tank division into Bulgaria or Romania. They don't need to if any of many loose states there let themselves to be turned into Russian staging ground. Not a stretch given how fantastically corrupt governments there are, with Moldovia, and its breakaway regions in particular. There was even a precedent: Montenegro once almost let Russian to buy a military base there + humongous lots of lands adjacent to it, allegedly, in exchange for a laughable amount of money going to families of previous cabinet members.