Posted on 12/05/2025 6:52:29 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
Moldova is working with the European Union and the United States on a plan to reintegrate the separatist region of Transnistria, a process officials describe as sensitive and requiring full discretion, according to the Romanian daily Adevarul.
Transnistria, on the left bank of the Dniester, has operated for more than three decades as a de facto entity sustained politically, militarily and economically by Moscow since the 1992 conflict. The renewed focus on reintegration comes as Chișinău accelerates its EU accession efforts and seeks stronger Western backing for its security and state consolidation agenda.
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Soon Moldova will need to work with the Russians, given the Neocon disaster in Ukraine.
Is now really a good time to invade a Russian ally?
Is now really a good time to invade a Russian ally?
Russia has lost Syria as a client.
Russia seems to be moving out of Venezuela.
It might be a good time to reclaim Transnistria.
Very hard to know such things with the limited knowledge we can glean from the Internet.
“Soon Moldova will need to work with the Russians, given the Neocon disaster in Ukraine.”
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When you say “Neocon” about Russia’s sabotage actions, never ending wars and Kremlin’s colonialist attitude of annexing territories which aren’t theirs, you should instead use the word “NeoSoviet”.
The NeoSoviets started wars against Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine like crazy unhinged warmongers. And now they are lost in a quagmire in Ukraine...
Four years of war, one million lost Russian boys, and Russia is STILL not capable of controlling the FOUR smaller oblasts in Ukraine. “Mighty” Russia is only good at propaganda and poking the Ukrainian bear, but God what an immense display of inefficiency and disorganization they are displaying for the world to see!
MILITARY & DEFENSE
Former top Russian general said he’d give ‘entire Russian intelligence community’ a failing grade for Ukraine invasion
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-general-vladimir-chirkin-intelligence-failing-grade-invasion-ukraine-2025-12
Who said Transnistra needed or wanted to be “ reclaimed”?
This is another group of people that resisted losing their heritage and
ethnic ties to european power bloc brokers drawing lines on a political map
to create new states ( not nations) after wars and crumbled empires
It's been well known since the Soviet Union that Russia wasn't going to tolerate it being raided by European countries.
This is just another act of provocation those pushing it hope leads to drawing us into a hot war with Russia.
Transniestria has a rather small military, but Moldova’s military is no larger. They lost the brief war to prevent Transniestria from breaking away in the first place. They would need either the help of a larger force, like the Romanians or the Ukrainians, or else wait for a negotiated reunification. Since Transniestria is effectively cut off from Russian support, they are having to deal with one another just to survive. So to me that seems to be the more practical answer.
Moldova doesn’t seem interested in forcing the issue anyway. It’s a problem that isn’t really a problem, one that will resolve itself over time. The number of ethnic Russians and ethnic Moldovans in Transniestria is approximately even.
Transnistria declared independence from Moldova before Moldova became independent. Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence in 1990, establishing the Pridnestrovian-Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (PMSSR) on September 2, 1990, during the final years of the Soviet Union.
Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union in August 1991, following the failed coup attempt in Moscow.
Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence in 1990, establishing the Pridnestrovian-Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (PMSSR) on September 2, 1990, during the final years of the Soviet Union.
The PMS-SR, must be run by women. ;)
Funny listening to all the Zeepers throw the whole idea of representative government and self-determination out the window in their defense of leftist dictators and tyrants in the NATO/EU bureaucracy. In what sense, exactly, do any of you consider yourself “conservative”?
Russia might be willing to make a deal that gets them out of Transnistria in return for Moldovan “neutrality”. Within 5 or 10 years, Russia will succeed in installing a puppet government in Chisinau, and neutrality will be replaced by new Russian bases in Moldova, and eventually the occupation and annexation of Odesa and beyond.
Later Renewals: Russia reiterated promises to withdraw in 2021, but again failed to act, frustrating Moldovan authorities.
Russia is going to TAKE the Transnistria, and probably the baboons in Moldova too. After Odessa.
Rumania has their own lost territories to reclaim in the coming conflagration.
Better to let transdniester become independent.
Oh and give the Gaugaz semi autonomy within Moldova
I think Transdniester is not worth the effort. It is across the river Dniester and thanks to 35 years of russian ethnic cleansing, has few Romanians/Moldovans.
Better to cut it off.
Silverleaf “This is another group of people that resisted losing their heritage and
ethnic ties”
???
The creation of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) in 1924 within the Ukrainian SSR formalized the region’s borders and promoted industrialization, attracting more Ukrainians and some Russians. The 1926 census showed Ukrainians at 48.5%, Moldovans at 30.1%, and Russians at 8.5%. By 1936, Ukrainians were at 45.5% and Russians at 9.7%, with ongoing migrations amid Soviet policies and famines that displaced populations.
After World War II, when the region became part of the Moldavian SSR, heavy industrialization (concentrated in Transnistria, producing 40% of Moldova’s GDP by 1990) drew large numbers of Russian and Ukrainian workers from other parts of the USSR. This included up to 1 million settlers across Moldova, significantly boosting the Russian population (from 13.7% in 1926 to 25.5% by 1989 in Transnistria) while Ukrainians remained stable around 27-28%. Policies of Russification and deportations (e.g., of locals to Siberia) also reshaped demographics.
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