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Moldova's rebel region asks Putin for 'protection'
metro via msn ^ | 2/28/24 | Story by Gergana Krasteva

Posted on 02/28/2024 1:21:11 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

Politicians in Moldova’s Kremlin-backed separatist region of Transnistria have appealed to Vladimir Putin to provide it with ‘protection’.

Fears were stoked last week that Russia’s president was preparing for yet another landgrab in Europe in the wake of the two-year anniversary of his full-scale war in Ukraine.

President Maia Sandu’s government has been fielding calls since Ghenadie Ciorba, an opposition figure in Transnistria, suggested that separatists are planning to call for a referendum on the region’s annexation to Russia.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: moldova; transistria

1 posted on 02/28/2024 1:21:11 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

It’s a peculiar little pseudo-nation. Was never part of Romania until briefly in the 1940s so don’t consider themselves part of Moldova.


2 posted on 02/28/2024 1:24:31 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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3 posted on 02/28/2024 1:29:42 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Neocons wanted proxy-war with Russia, and they got proxy-war with Russia.


4 posted on 02/28/2024 1:34:48 PM PST by PGR88
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5 posted on 02/28/2024 1:45:24 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Trans people just want freedom

surely NATO accepts that?


6 posted on 02/28/2024 1:46:51 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

LOL !


7 posted on 02/28/2024 2:04:13 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I am totally and completely surprised by the Moldavian rebels request. N O T


8 posted on 02/28/2024 2:08:04 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: PGR88

They have been trying to expand this war so NATO could get involved.

First with the Kaliningrad blockade.

then with the pipeline bombing. which if russia would have done it would have been an Article 5 attack.

They have been trying to stir up conflict in Kosovo against the Serb minority.

They already threatened Transnistra last year to seize the ammunition storage depot.

Also they shelled the Zaphor nuclear plant to create an incident.

And they blew the dam and flooded the Russian side in Kherson.

... and on and on...


9 posted on 02/28/2024 2:10:23 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: PGR88
Trans people just want freedom

😉

10 posted on 02/28/2024 2:19:03 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Russia has UN APPROVAL to be in Transnistria. If the Neocons try getting ‘cute’, they will have a LOT MORE Russians to deal with in that territory, and likely a Russian land-bridge from Donbass to deal with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Control_Commission


12 posted on 02/28/2024 2:52:34 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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Putin’s MO. Invent victims, dump passports, find new Russians needing “protection. Stage a few attacks. Invade.


13 posted on 02/28/2024 4:23:02 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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