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Honestly I get the impression Transnistria gives lots of bad people, or good people who just like to do illegal things, plausible deniability. Moldova could re
by notch898a 4y ago
Honestly I get the impression Transnistria gives lots of bad people, or good people who just like to do illegal things, plausible deniability. Moldova could retake it easy enough, but why eliminate a great smuggling route and cash haven. It would be like the US and Mexico actually trying to snuff out the cartel areas, of course they're not going to do that when it's so profitable not to.
- reducesuffering 4y ago> Moldova could retake it easy enough Well most of the world doesn't have the horrific Russian state mindset. To us civilized ones, disrupting the generally reasonable status quo to blow people up into submission is very wrong.
- chasil 4y agoNo, Transnistria could actually take Moldova. However, in the grand scheme, this would not be an efficient use of resources. "An upgrade to the virtually unarmed Moldovan military, which received its first Piranha armored vehicles from Germany a few weeks ago, is also on the table. "At present, the country could hardly defend itself even against the separatists in Transnistria, who probably have dozens of battle tanks and other heavy military equipment, along with the large stocks of ammunition. Ukraine has therefore offered to provide military assistance if Moscow and the separatists provoke a conflict. But any suggestion that Ukraine is planning a military intervention in Moldova is absurd and at best a pretext for the Kremlin to justify its belligerence. Ukraine can certainly do without committing its military resources to a second front."