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Commentary: If Putin conquers Ukraine, is Moldova next?

Moldovan President Maia Sandu, right, speaks next to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a press conference at The Presidential Palace in Chisinau, on March 6, 2022.

Watching the war in Ukraine, many in the U.S. and elsewhere are hearing for the first time the name of another country, Moldova. But few in the West know much about it, where it is and what its place is in the geopolitics of Europe.

Despite the visibility that the Baltic states receive in the media as possible targets in Vladimir Putin’s war, the most likely next victim in the path of the Russian army is Moldova, a small country of about 3 million people to the west of

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