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2022-05-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Transnistria becomes potential hotspot in Russia's war
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Posted by Fred 2022-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
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#1 I'm definitely not here to shill for the Russians; but this article isn't historically accurate. If I may make a few points?

1) The Russians didn't "invade" Transnistria. There was a Soviet military base (basically a giant ammo dump) there when Moldova was an SSR. The Russian successor government kept it, and also support the Transnistrians, who are basically Russians.

2) There was a nasty little civil war there between 1990-1992. You can read about it here. Transnistria is (or was) the heavily industrialized region of Moldova, and mostly Russian. Moldova was talking about joining Romania, as Moldovans are basically Romanians. The Russians/Transnistrians weren't down with that. Hence, a thirty year stalemate.

3)The Moldovans, Transnistrians, and Russians together run something called the Joint Control Commission to oversea the Transnitrian/Moldovan border and keep things calm. You can read about it here. It's not perfect. But nobody's sons have come home in body bags for thirty years.

The Kyiv Independent isn't being very independent when it comes to specifically this topic.
Posted by Secret Master 2022-05-15 19:04||   2022-05-15 19:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you, Secret Master. When I lived in Germany I discovered how parochial people can be. Including me, as it turned out — so it was a good, if uncomfortable learning.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-15 23:08||   2022-05-15 23:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you, Secret Master.

Thank you, again. 90% of the "news" and "reporting" we're receiving from the MIC regarding Transnistria, Donbas and the like is complete bullshit. Spin, dezinformatsiya, agitprop.
Posted by Choth Elmavitch6131 2022-05-15 23:15||   2022-05-15 23:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Part of what we do here is tease out the needles from the hay, Choth Elmavitch6131. And given that both sides are spinning as hard as they can — perhaps we should call it marketing — that’s a lot of hay to work with.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-15 23:24||   2022-05-15 23:24|| Front Page Top

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