Moldova, particularly, is home to a technically existing and yet unrecognized breakaway Marxist-Leninist 'country' known as Transnistria, and this would be Putin's next target to absorb. Thus, his next ambition would likely be taking the rest of Moldova in the process after quickly securing the Transnistrian capital. Russian forces would then push towards Estonia in such a way as to at least bridge the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad with Russia proper, annexing lands they claim are essential to the protection of said land bridge regardless of the rights and desires of the three NATO-protected sovereign Baltic nations, which will now inevitably live under the the Russian tricolor hammer and sickle, paralyzing Moldova even further as a strict and monitored police state which would obviously come under direct Russian military occupation as to ensure "compliance."
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