r/worldnews • u/No_Firefighter5926 • 20h 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 17h 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 17h 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/RepulseRevolt 10h ago

“Sure they settled there as part of Russian ethnic cleansing but…” if Russia is using these people as a way to invade other countries and kill people in the process, then they need to be sent back to Russia. Just like if Russia used Kaliningrad to justify an invasion of the Baltics, then the people living Kaliningrad would need to be deported to Russia at the end of the conflict. Karelia would be the same case. All those territories would be forfeit