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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: buwaya
You celebrate the newest Spanish export?

what is wrong with you?


41 posted on 03/07/2024 7:13:04 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Timber Rattler
"This was but the first step, old boy."

What are you, a fat, Victorian Englishman? Because dreams of empire motivate you and you are an overbearing idiot.

42 posted on 03/07/2024 7:14:01 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: JonPreston
Don't let the Spanish-resident non-American pull your chain. He represents himself one way, but revealed himself in a different way. Details from a comment made on an earlier Free Republic thread:
"I am so conservative that I support the restoration of the Spanish empire under the Bourbon monarchy, and my guides in political philosophy are Thomas Aquinas and De Maistre.

You extremist republican liberals that call themselves 'conservatives' are funny. You have never understood what you are, much less why you are what you are.

And yet, and yet ...

We actual, genuine conservatives in the great old European tradition see an assertion that we dispute as a challenge to argument, an 'en garde', to a civilized crossing of blades. As did, note, Thomas Aquinas, as his 'Summa' is really a guide to arguments.

Throwing garbage is not defending your position. It is boorish and disorderly behavior best suppressed by the monarch."

Buwaya on Free Republic

A non-republican monarchist is busy trying to portray himself as a political conservative on Free Republic, a forum which includes the word, "free" meaning in part not a subject of a monarch, and "republic" meaning a form of government quite different than a monarchy.

Actually, it is amusing that he documented his own non-free and non-republican view in this manner, in an apparent attempt to demonstrate his "superior" intellect.

43 posted on 03/07/2024 7:14:11 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: JonPreston

No, buwaya is filipino for crocodile. He’s Filipino.


44 posted on 03/07/2024 7:15:28 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

I hear you. Every few months he pops up and makes noise. I work on getting his hubris and anti-American feelings out in the open, and on display. It’s pretty easy :)


45 posted on 03/07/2024 7:18:35 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: dforest

This is my business. Is it yours? You are complaining about French policy concerning a dispute between Moldavia and Russia. I at least am a citizen of a co-NATO and co-EU state with France. France is about 100 miles from me.

None of us in this discussion are French, Romanian, Moldavian or Russian (well, some might be Russian, who knows).

Your attitude is curious, to say the least.


46 posted on 03/07/2024 7:20:23 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: wildcard_redneck

ah. Thanks. He seemed to bite on the Catalonia reference and on #43 from Worldtraveler once upon a time.


47 posted on 03/07/2024 7:21:26 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

I am, as I showed, far more conservative than you are.
What I am is the oldest, OG conservative there ever has been or can be. You lot are all liberal radicals.


48 posted on 03/07/2024 7:24:22 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: JonPreston

No, I have commented with Buwaya many times. He is an ungrateful, green card Filipino with a rather high opinion of himself and he is sure he has the prescription to cure all of America’s ills. He is the smartest man in the world, just ask the little snot.


49 posted on 03/07/2024 7:26:44 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

well said. Pure foreign, anti-American arrogance on display.


50 posted on 03/07/2024 7:28:22 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: wildcard_redneck

I am, in truth, an international man of mystery.
The leftovers of three empires, we spend a lot of money on air travel.

I shall soon be back in the US as it happens. I am there for a few weeks every year.


51 posted on 03/07/2024 7:28:58 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: McGruff

The last major war the UK and France needed American Solders and Blood to
save their Surrender Monkey Ass*s. I would not start another was to help Corrupt Ukraine.


52 posted on 03/07/2024 7:31:02 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: buwaya

“I am, in truth, an international man of mystery.
The leftovers of three empires, we spend a lot of money on air travel.

I shall soon be back in the US as it happens. I am there for a few weeks every year.”

Thanks for the heads up. I will be on the lookout for a tiny Filipina with a little stick up his tiny arse and a chip on his trout shoulder.


53 posted on 03/07/2024 7:32:05 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: JonPreston

If I am arrogant, and hate the US, then you have to, logically, reject my criticisms of the US. But also logically, you can’t, because you would thus also have to defend your political and cultural enemies. You are in an untenable argumentative position, between a rock and a hard place.


54 posted on 03/07/2024 7:32:52 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: tennmountainman

War.


55 posted on 03/07/2024 7:33:15 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: wildcard_redneck

I will mostly be in San Francisco, pretending to be Charlton Heston in “The Omega Man”.


56 posted on 03/07/2024 7:34:21 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: wildcard_redneck

“he has the prescription to cure all of America’s ills”

For many of America’s ills, yes indeed. If you disagree with me, you can vote for Gavin Newsom, he’s your man.


57 posted on 03/07/2024 7:37:01 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya
You are in an untenable argumentative position, between a rock and a hard place chatty little foreigner who likes to nip at the ankles of Americans.

(fixed)

58 posted on 03/07/2024 7:43:49 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston; wildcard_redneck; buwaya; Darksheare

Three telling posts from the Superior Filipino. Makes you wonder why such an intellectual genius mingles with people he considers inferior.

To: wildcard_redneck

“Only a despotic Zeeper would propose using the US-funded World Bank to use our own money against us for thwart the will of our representatives in Congress.
Zeepers are NWO creeps and not Americans.”

Well, I am NOT American.
I COULD have been American, anytime in the last 40 years, but I chose not to be.
So hear this, from an interested outsider, with plenty of experience in the world - this rage, this hatred, is not not good. It is not holy, not ethical, not prudent, and not sane. It is sinful and can only lead to worse things. Look into yourself, go to confession if you are Catholic, and perhaps look into a retreat -
https://findthedivine.com/catholic-retreat-centers/
You need help.

33 posted on 1/21/2024, 1:23:51 PM by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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buwaya to bimboeruption

Nope, I am not a citizen of your country. But I lived there for 40 years, married an American, and left you my American children, who are all scary smart and talented. I have thereby added vastly to your national wealth.
And, more important, I have a store of knowledge and experience that I am certain you can’t match. So the smart thing to do, in ypur case, is to listen with humility and appreciation. It is a sort of IQ test, in fact.
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To: Darksheare

I AM superior. I can’t help that, it is simply so.
You, on the other hand, are resentful. That is an...uglier state of being.

85 posted on 1/24/2024, 3:54:43 AM by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4212443/posts?page=85#85


59 posted on 03/07/2024 7:44:20 AM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: JonPreston

Rock, hard place. Go defend Joe Biden and all his friends.
You have no choice, no options.


60 posted on 03/07/2024 7:48:02 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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