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To: BeauBo

Do you think that Moldova will reunite with Romania?


95 posted on 05/17/2023 10:58:53 PM PDT by Jacob Kell (Parents are better off sending their kids to vocational schools.)
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To: Jacob Kell

“Do you think that Moldova will reunite with Romania?”

It seems to me that that would require a strong political consensus in Moldova, which I doubt, without a dramatic push from the Russian threat (or maybe a Russian collapse).

Big changes are happening with Russia and the war in Ukraine, that could reshape Moldovan politics - and they have an election coming up. The Socialist and Communist Parties (currently leading slightly in polls) there are pro-Russian, and the currently ruling PAS Party is pro-EU. Re-joining Romania would seem to require even greater motivation than joining the EU, and they seem to struggle with that.

Russia is the 600 lb gorilla in the room, in terms of what might chase Moldova back into Romania. It might be hard for Romania to take them however, if they still have a border dispute with Russian troops in Transnistria (which could be a problem to get into NATO, or effect Romania’s membership).


96 posted on 05/18/2023 5:53:32 AM PDT by BeauBo
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