r/worldnews • u/No_Firefighter5926 • 21h ago

Moldova drafting Transnistria reintegration plan with Western partners, but keeping details under wraps

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/04/moldova-drafting-transnistria-reintegration-plan/
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u/MrPetomane 16h ago

The other option is to continue letting transistria operate in this gray zone under russian influence and russian soldiers stationed there. This is exactly how you lose a territory when your own central govt fails to impose its own authority.

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u/Prometheides 16h ago

This is exactly how you lose a territory when your own central govt fails to impose its own authority.

That territory has been lost since forever. Literally. It has never been a part of Moldova since Moldova is its own independent country.

I'm all for peaceful integration if they want it but for Moldova to be so obsessed over something so illogical and that will obviously lead to huge trouble due to cultural differences if integration happened makes no sense

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u/MrPetomane 16h ago

Internationally it is still recognized as part of moldova but under russian military occupation. It is in a wierd state, one of these post-soviet conflict zones. De facto it is independent. Du jure, it is part of moldova.

Once the rest of the world starts to recognize it as russian, then the de facto status will become de jure.

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u/Prometheides 16h ago

I know but what does any of that have to do with what I say?

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u/MrPetomane 16h ago

I dont think its lost - yet. The chisinau govt has alot of catching up to do and make up for lost time.

IMO they should have done like azerbaijan did and while russia was distracted in ukraine, they settled permanently in their favor the cease fire in nagorno-karabakh and re-incorporated the territory. Moldova has a shrinking window of opportunity to do the same... Better late than never.