Putin puts the energy squeeze on pro-EU Moldova

Politico ^ | 21 November 2021 | Victor Jack

[COBOL2Java]

Moldova should sic Vigo on Putin...

[tlozo]

 Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend an unveiling ceremony of a monument to late Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Moscow, Russia November 22, 2022.

[davidb56]

there was NO missile strikes in Moldova. This article is intentionally misleading, or just a crock of $hit reporting.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Seems logical for Russia.

[tlozo]

there was NO missile strikes in Moldova.

Previously, Ukraine provided 30 percent of Moldova's electricity needs. However, Russian attacks on the country's energy infrastructure have forced Kyiv to halt all exports

[BenLurkin]

A whole lot of purple prose in there. The author certainly is a drama queen.

[Renfrew]

On sleepless nights I’m sure Putin wishes he had gone after an easier target like Moldova.

The Russian army could have handled them.

[BenLurkin]

Maybe, but unlike the Ukraine, Moldova is historically Romanian and not Russian.

[MeganC]

Last week’s Russian missile strikes in Ukraine caused blackouts in Moldova. It’s a poorly written sentence but it is accurate.

[Boogieman]

“they want to keep Moldova under their zone of interest”

If Russia keeps on their current path, they’re going to have trouble keeping anything in their “zone of interest”.

[Kazan]

Putin is using energy as a weapon? He’s not the one the started the sanction war. The Biden regime and West did and it has been a spectacular failure.

[alexander_busek]

He’s not the one the started the sanction war.

True - But he is the one who started the "invading, rocket-bombing, seizing territory, and killing innocent civilians"-war.

That should count for something, dontcha think?

Regards,

[Cronos]

Depends on what you mean by historically. For a long time Belarus and much of Ukraine was Lithuanian.

Should they be reunited with Lithuania?

[DesertRhino]

Vigo? Who is that? First it’s Harry Potter Orcs, and now this. All the Uke/EU advocates are really into children’s books.

Weird.

[DesertRhino]

He also didn’t blow up the pipelines....

[DesertRhino]

“”invading, rocket-bombing, seizing territory, and killing innocent civilians”-war.”

The Ukes started doing that in the Donbass 8 years ago for the crime of opting out of the coup, but nobody cared.

[COBOL2Java]

Vigo? Who is that? First it’s Harry Potter Orcs, and now this. All the Uke/EU advocates are really into children’s books.

Ghostbusters 2. Vigo the Carpathian

[Kazan]

True - But he is the one who started the "invading, rocket-bombing, seizing territory, and killing innocent civilians"-war.

Like we did twice in Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, Syria and other places?

And, other than Afghanistan, the Russians have better reasons to have gone into Ukraine that we did in all those other places.

[Jacob Kell]

No. But Belarus and Ukraine were and are East Slavic, not Baltic like Lithuania. Ethnically, Moldova is Romanian. It was originally part of the Romanian pricipality of Moldavia, same as Wallachia, and Transylvania. Modern Moldova, then known as Bessarabia, was taken by Russia from Moldavia in 1812 following a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.