Moldova and Transnistria Situation Thread

Sandu-**** how dare you. Biden has informed the world that Russia is using Sputnik V as tool of imperial aggression. It is unsafe and
unproven and totally ineffective. How can you, in all that is holy, want to expose your precious freedom loving people to such an
evil concoction... //sarc

Traitor!!!

magnumcromagnon wrote:It was only 5 months ago that Ms. Sandu was demanding the forced expulsion of Russian peacekeepers from Transnistria, now she's groveling on her knees begging for Sputnik V!

Sandu asked Moscow to urgently send "Sputnik V"



Moldovan President Maia Sandu appealed to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with a request to provide a batch of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. She announced this on Friday evening during the program “Friday with Anatoly Golya” on the RTR-Moldova TV channel....

miketheterrible wrote:Starscream was the only cool transformer. Don't you dare soil such a character.

His loyalty was beyond reproach

Would want a better source than Reuters... that is like Bellingcat, or the BBC in terms of links to UK intelligence...

Part of the reason Sandu won is because she dialed down the anti-Russian rhetoric a lot, and instead made overtures to Moscow, secured some Sputnik V vaccine, and so on.

With her already in power and now just needing to get a parliamentary majority, it not longer made sense to take a hard position, she instead needed to consolidate society behind her

What now though, well we'll see. The EU is not offering Moldova membership in any case, the last thing they need is another conservative Eastern European country to eat funds, promote Russophobia and oppose the EU's 'liberal values'.

So in the end it doesn't much matter. Until the Ukraine is neutralized or goes back into the Russian orbit or splits or whatever, Russia cannot offer Moldova much in any case. Russia needs to rethink its whole strategy.