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BootinUp

(49,020 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2024, 10:46 AM Oct 21

Moldova votes for EU

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Moldova votes for EU (Original Post) BootinUp Oct 21 OP

Great! elleng Oct 21 #1

Musk in Moldova? HereonAddict Oct 21 #2

Interesting that the voter who is shown is wearing Ukraine's colours. niyad Oct 21 #3

This is a big effin deal. Beastly Boy Oct 21 #4

Thank you for that background information! niyad Oct 21 #5

I learn something new every day Lulu KC Oct 21 #7

YAY!! 2naSalit Oct 21 #6

elleng

(136,043 posts)

1. Great!

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 10:49 AM

Oct 21

HereonAddict

(1 post)

2. Musk in Moldova?

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 11:04 AM

Oct 21

How many Pennsylvania voters will be asking the same question?

niyad

(119,875 posts)

3. Interesting that the voter who is shown is wearing Ukraine's colours.

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 11:26 AM

Oct 21

Beastly Boy

(11,135 posts)

4. This is a big effin deal.

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 11:30 AM

Oct 21

Russia always considered Moldova to be within its sphere of influence, and a big part of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was to link Russia and Moldova by land captured from Ukraine.

Once Moldova gains EU membership, the tiny sliver of land with ethnic majority Russian population which calls itself Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and claims independence from Moldova, will become irrelevant in the long term.

This is a huge, and unexpected, blow to Putin's coveted ambition to resurrect the Grand Russian Empire.