Vladimir Putin has been on a losing streak of epic proportions these past four-plus years. Not only has his “special operation” in Ukraine gone spectacularly wrong, but he continues to lose geopolitical partners, including Syria, Venezuela, and Armenia. Now, it appears he may soon lose both Cuba and Transnistria, the tiny breakaway “republic” the Kremlin helped set up in 1992 by backing pro-Russian separatist forces in a civil war in Moldova.
Transnistria, with less than 400,000 inhabitants and a land mass of only 1,600 square miles, is located between Ukraine and Moldova. It has continued to exist only due to Russian military support, but its continued existence as a Russian puppet state and ally is now in doubt given Russia’s weakened state.
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