Syria, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Kazakhstan for a start. But there are probably 20 other less obvious ones like Armenia where it would indirectly knock on.The Serbs for example rely on them a lot. China would be looking North.
Internally there are at least 4 or 5 provinces who would break away if they could.
Thats one take on it. Another is that people are being rounded up based on the language they speak or because of social media posts. As usual the truth will lie somewhere in the middle.
Our resident free thinkers™ will no doubt continue to dismiss the bleedin’ obvious truth and continue to preach some fantastical 24D chess hocus pocus conspiracy, with all the fervour of born again evangelicals.