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120z8t t1_iu92jwz wrote

Reply to comment by RedofPaw in Russia’s security service works to subvert Moldova’s pro-Western government, intelligence documents show by wobblyweasel

I would bet money that Russia planned to invade. I would bet they planned to take Ukraine and move on to Moldova.

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Force3vo t1_iu9fshv wrote

Definitely did. Invade those two then try to make EU states join them.

It's what they offered last month, had their army not been finished at that point it would be a lot more possible countries like Hungary would swap.

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ZhouDa t1_iuan6hd wrote

Early in the war Lukashenko showed a battle map showing all the places where Russian was planning to attack Ukraine from, and one those place was a Russian controlled Moldova. In reality Russia needed a Ukrainian land bridge to Transnistria to make an invasion possible but Ukraine never let Russia take that much territory.

There's another interesting idea I heard that Putin was actually planning on conquering or subduing Ukraine, then he was going to mobilize Russia to get the military he needed to take on the other countries on his list (Moldova and Belarus would have been the safest bets for the next two countries he would have annexed), but in either case Ukrainian resistance forced him to move up his mobilization schedule before he was ready.

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