Originally Posted by
henra
Seeing the powerful verbal approach I'm wondering though how they would want to spread it in practical terms!?
Their friends and troops there are -to put it mildly- in a prone position. And help would have to come via Air through Ukraine defended Airspace or through Sea via a heftily decimated and vulnerable Russian Black Sea fleet. Opening them up for a Turkey shoot in both cases.
They can't do anything at the moment, but most likely the Russian elite is paving the mental way to Moldova in Russian audience in case they suucceed in Ukraine and reach Odesa.
They probbaly want to create false justification to continue the SMO to new directions then.
Just wait and see, soon they'll start talking of "the nazis in Chisinau" and "biolabs in Moldova". Then it'll be the Transnistrians asking for "help" and so forth. In the end Russia has reached one NATO border again and start talking how NATO is threatening mother Russia by expanding to east. Cynical? Maybe.
EDIT: Forget my comment about cynicism, it has already started: Lavrov says that "situation in Moldova is identical to Ukraine".
Take it as a fact: If Ukraine falls or Russia reaches Odesa, Moldova will be attacked by Russians. No IF.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1763893936064491848
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1763893936064491848