which is right beside Ukraine, between Ukraine and Romania.
Russia has been meddling with their politics for a while, even more since the Ukraine war began in earnest.
Inside Russia's Konstantin reported yesterday of a weird shakeup in the upper levels of Russian politics. I sat up and paid attention when the KGB was brought up. A senior general in the KGB RESPONSIBLE for destabilizing Moldova (they don't say that, they call it in charge of establishing good relations with Moldova) got fired. I guess he wasn't doing a good enough job to please Putin.
So I looked around and Moldova is in the middle of an election AND trying to be part of the EU. The EU is fine with them joining. They are not members of NATO, but are on the council.
When the Ukrainian invasion began in Biden's term, just after his inauguration, (I think, I'm going on memory here) Moldova came up regularly as it looked like Russia wanted to gain control of Moldova in order to flank Ukraine from Russia on the east, and Moldova on the west while attacking the port of Odessa on the shores of the Black Sea to the south.
Why this has me paying attention is because of the sudden extra activity with Poland by Russian drones, the threats to the Baltics, particularly Lithuania who shares a border with Poland and they both border that little Russian enclave in between them.
It's another little puzzle piece showing up right after the big SCO meeting in Shanghai China.
This could signal a change in the direction of war in Ukraine with Russia becoming more of a direct threat to NATO allied countries, and EU allied countries.
Russia has been meddling with their politics for a while, even more since the Ukraine war began in earnest.
Inside Russia's Konstantin reported yesterday of a weird shakeup in the upper levels of Russian politics. I sat up and paid attention when the KGB was brought up. A senior general in the KGB RESPONSIBLE for destabilizing Moldova (they don't say that, they call it in charge of establishing good relations with Moldova) got fired. I guess he wasn't doing a good enough job to please Putin.
So I looked around and Moldova is in the middle of an election AND trying to be part of the EU. The EU is fine with them joining. They are not members of NATO, but are on the council.
When the Ukrainian invasion began in Biden's term, just after his inauguration, (I think, I'm going on memory here) Moldova came up regularly as it looked like Russia wanted to gain control of Moldova in order to flank Ukraine from Russia on the east, and Moldova on the west while attacking the port of Odessa on the shores of the Black Sea to the south.
Why this has me paying attention is because of the sudden extra activity with Poland by Russian drones, the threats to the Baltics, particularly Lithuania who shares a border with Poland and they both border that little Russian enclave in between them.
It's another little puzzle piece showing up right after the big SCO meeting in Shanghai China.
This could signal a change in the direction of war in Ukraine with Russia becoming more of a direct threat to NATO allied countries, and EU allied countries.
