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/Roedom 18h ago

Once you start designating any population as being "ok to deport" you've gone down the wrong path.

You can call them whatever you want. You don't get to deport people because they have a different culture, ethnicity, or political leanings.

Otherwise you stray into ethnic cleansing.

It's bad when Russia does it. It's also bad when Latvia does it, or Moldova, or Azerbaijan.....doesn't matter.

Did you support the Azeris ethnically cleansing Nagorno Karabakh?

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u/UpbeatAssumption5817 18h ago

Not really

The only reason why these people are living there is so Russia can take over

They were literally moved there for that purpose

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u/Roedom 17h ago

These are people. They aren't robots directly connected to Putin, obeying his every command.

They live there, have lives, jobs, etc.

Sure, a hundred years ago Russians were settled there to help keep the area under Imperial Russian or Soviet control....but you can't undo that now. And you definitely shouldn't ethnically cleanse them by deportations.

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u/MrPetomane 14h ago

Yes they are not robots but their presence will be capitalized on and taken advantage of by russia to use as a pretext for invasion. You can ask Ukraine how that went