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France and Moldova to sign defence pact amid fears of Russian destabilisation
Reuters ^ | March 6, 2024 | John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau

Posted on 03/07/2024 3:31:38 AM PST by Timber Rattler

Moldova and France will sign a defence cooperation accord on Thursday as part of the West's efforts to strengthen the former Soviet state's capabilities amid what they fear are increasing efforts by Russia to destabilise Moldova.

Moldova, a western neighbour of Ukraine, has a tiny defence budget and has long had tense relations with Moscow, which have worsened as Chisinau backs Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Russia has troops and peacekeepers based in Transdniestria, a breakaway statelet of Moldova that has maintained its autonomy for three decades with the Kremlin's support.

The French presidency said in a statement on Wednesday that defence and economic cooperation accords would be signed when President Emmanuel Macron meets his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu in Paris.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; France; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: macron; moldova; nato; putin; sandu; ukraine
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To: Justa
Hillary had nothing to do with Khaddaffi’s downfall.

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21 posted on 03/07/2024 5:39:05 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Sure, it’s all a conspiracy against the enlightened, altruistic, benevolent KGB empire. That’s the reason its client states are failing. That’s why its troops are repulsed in neighboring countries. That’s why even the Russian people are rejecting the State. It’s all a conspiracy.

No. It’s a staid, 120-year old empire which cannot reconcile itself with the current conditions of the world nor the welfare of people under its influence. Like the Ottoman empire 100 years ago it is outpaced by world events and unable to provide solutions or leadership.


22 posted on 03/07/2024 6:03:10 AM PST by Justa
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To: JonPreston

Its a security problem adjacent to NATO Romania. Yeah, trouble ain’t trouble unless a war is on on NATO territory?


23 posted on 03/07/2024 6:12:41 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: JonPreston

Libya was a pot beginning to boil over all on its own. The old regime was failing. When the Tunisian populist protests hit Libya (the immediate cause of all this Arab populism), the government immediately lost control of Benghazi and Eastern Libya to the local tribes and Muslim brotherhood factions.

Then the government tried to take it back. Thats when the British, French and Americans intervened.


24 posted on 03/07/2024 6:17:56 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Timber Rattler

You go for it froggies. This time you and the Krauts and the Limeys and the Poles all get to be on the same side as everyone chooses up sides for WWIII.


25 posted on 03/07/2024 6:23:56 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

Hilary is too stupid to arrange such things. There were career intelligence and military people who wanted to do this for many years. Khadafi had been on their s**t list for decades.

The problem with the career intelligence and military people was they hadnt taken the character of the Libyan people into account. There was a reason Khadafi had been such a tyrant.


26 posted on 03/07/2024 6:24:21 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

When I want the foreign policy opinion of a Spaniard, I’ll ring you up. Until then, go fix Catalonia.


27 posted on 03/07/2024 6:25:02 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Timber Rattler

Moldovan Christian charities in North Carolina acting under missionary cargo containerization federal law, bought up American Panty Hose for sale to the Pantyhoseless women of Russia.

Somehow, Russia never developed the industrial ability to make panty hose


28 posted on 03/07/2024 6:27:40 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Timber Rattler

It could it be that the french M.I.C. needs to launder a few more billion SorosBucks to clear up unsold in inventory of obsolete equipment and munitions?

Cui bono? Sequi Pecuniam


29 posted on 03/07/2024 6:37:09 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: JonPreston

The Catalans will fix themselves. Tempest in a teapot.

In the meantime, I have way more “background” in all this than you do. You are very underinformed. Its quite a disgrace really. My first big disillusinment re the US, oh, 35 years ago, in my many decades there, was about education.

I had no kids in school yet, but I watched “Stand and Deliver”, about a Bolivian (yeah, it took a Bolivian) calculus teacher in LA. Brought down by an American bureaucracy. I thought “it cant be that bad, can it?”. But it was that bad.

You cant fix anything unless you admit your own depravities.
Messing up math instruction is depraved, btw. Math is holy, and this is a grave sin.

Admit it, fully, openly, and humbly. Repent and perform penance. Crawling up the cathedral steps on bloody knees is where your mind should be.


30 posted on 03/07/2024 6:37:42 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: JonPreston

You Americans can’t even run an education system. Are you going to dispute that?

Heck, you can’t control your own borders, or keep your feral masses from burning down their own cities, or manage your government budgets, or keep homeless masses off the streets.

All these things other countries do better.

Go defend the US on all this. That will require rejecting everything said on FR since the Clinton administration. Are you going to be a traitor to FR?


31 posted on 03/07/2024 6:45:19 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya
I have way more “background” in all this than you do.

Because Spain is such an integral part of the world community?

32 posted on 03/07/2024 6:51:04 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: buwaya

#31. If you don’t like America why not stay in your own country?


33 posted on 03/07/2024 6:53:16 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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34 posted on 03/07/2024 7:00:08 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: JonPreston

Because I lived in the US for almost 40 years, working in essential industries. Married an American and my kids are American.

And what few Americans have, the background and willingness to compare.

I can judge the US vs option B, C, D. You can’t. You cant tell your bureaucrats to their faces that they are doing it wrong. Your lack of ability is a betrayal of your own people. Traitor.


35 posted on 03/07/2024 7:00:39 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya
what the hell is wrong with you?


36 posted on 03/07/2024 7:02:54 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

I did retire in my own country. Much better here than there, where madness now rules.


37 posted on 03/07/2024 7:03:24 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: JonPreston

Absolutely nothing. I am the very model of a retired energy industry engineer (apologies to Gilbert&Sullivan).

And you are still a traitor, who doesn’t want to hear the truth about the US. Its almost as if you work for the Department of Education.


38 posted on 03/07/2024 7:07:04 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

Good, we are happy for you. Now mind your own business.


39 posted on 03/07/2024 7:07:09 AM PST by dforest
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To: Timber Rattler

If the French get into it with Russian troops and get a bloody nose I guarantee that NATO will leave them hanging out to dry.


40 posted on 03/07/2024 7:11:12 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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