Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Posted on 08/25/2008 2:48:34 PM PDT by reaganaut1
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned ex-Soviet Moldova on Monday against repeating Georgia's mistake of trying to use force to seize back control of a breakaway region.
Russia sent peacekeepers to Moldova in the early 1990s to end a conflict between Chisinau and its breakaway Transdniestria region and is trying to mediate a deal between the two sides.
Transdniestria, one of a number of "frozen conflicts" on the territory of the former Soviet Union, mirrored the standoff between Georgia and its rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia until they erupted in war earlier this month.
Russia sent troops to Georgia to crush Tbilisi's military push into South Ossetia and Moscow says Georgia has now lost the chance of ever re-integrating the breakaway provinces.
"After the Georgian leadership lost their marbles, as they say, all the problems got worse and a military conflict erupted," Medvedev told Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin.
"This is a serious warning, a warning to all," he added. "And I believe we should handle other existing conflicts in this context."
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The return of the “Brezhnev Doctrine.”
Some of us have always known she was supporting separatist movements all over the former USSR.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Funny how white trash often shows itself when ya get a little money. That oil money shows russia for the garbage they are.
ping
OJ warns other ex-girlfriends against "Nicole mistake".
That cold you are right Dr Doom is from Moldvaia LOL!
POST OF THE DAY award.
Eh...Moldova...Latveria...it was bound to be one of those lozenge sized countries on the map.
Moldova is not Poland.
Mad Vlad is ready to resurrect the EVIL EMPIRE he loyally served all his life.
Voronin is a communist so he see things the Kremlin’s way.
Odd.
Maps indicate that Transdniestria
does not have a border with Russia.
It is landlocked between Moldova and Ukraine.
-cobbled together from several wikipedia articles-:
Romania has been a member of NATO since 2004.
Moldova and Ukraine both joined NATO’s “Partnership for Peace” in 1994.
Ukraine’s military is the second largest in Europe, second only to that of Russia.
Individual Partnership Action Plans (IPAPs) were launched by NATO at the
2002 Prague Summit and are open to countries that have the political will
and ability to deepen their relationship with NATO. Currently IPAPs
are in implementation with the following countries:
Georgia (29 October 2004)
Azerbaijan (27 May 2005)
Armenia (16 December 2005)
Ukraine (9 July 1997)
Moldova (19 May 2006)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (10 January 2008)
The hair on the back of my neck stands up
when I think about how badly russia wants ukraine back.
I would not be surprised to see them try to pick a fight there.
The only relief is knowing that if I am thinking about this,
so are others who can make appropriate preparations.
I therefore expect Ukraine to get the “fast track” into NATO.
Yup.
Uncle Joe had a friend indeed in that commie-loving s.o.b. FDR.
What a different kind of person from his relative Teddy Roosevelt FDR was. A real commie dupe.
We better move fast on getting the NATO shield on Ukraine.
If not, the Evil EMpire is back - on petroleum laced steroids.
We can thank the triad of the worst three presidents in American history in a row to afflict us - GB I, Clinton and GB II - for this mess with Russia and for allowing Putin to take over there.
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