Reply To: Russian Tensions
TS – “there’s no way ordinary people would be challenging their “leaders” who are attempting to incorporate them into the neo-liberal hell-hole that is the EU…”
FACT-CHECK
Sixty-three percent of Moldovans support EU membership, while 33% oppose it. Currently, 82% of Moldovans believe current relations with the EU are either very good or somewhat good and 67% believe it is one of the country’s most important economic partners.
TS- “It must be “outside agitators”. Said every fascist ever.”
A reminder that this was exactly the argument TS and the Chinese government made concerning the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong – that they were instigated by the US.
The repression continues to this day with the ongoing trial of dissidents for “subversion” ie engaging in elections to paralyse the government with a plan to win a majority of seats.
TS finds that anything that does not concur with his political perspective is “fascist” regardless of their actual real politics.
I knew of Transnistria but I have to confess I never heard of the Gagauz issue. It too can be linked to the EU and the Eurasion Economic Union divide I have referred to in earlier posts.
Another aspect I had not understood is from a Turkish analysis that one of Russia’s strategic aims was to create a satellite state of Novorossiya a region that Putin also declared to have been wrongly given to Ukraine like Crimea.
