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#Moldova: In the Kremlin gunsights? Ivana Stradner, FDD

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Moldova: In the Kremlin gunsights? Ivana Stradner, FDD
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/12/14/putin-is-already-proving-he-wont-stop-at-ukraine/

1904 Romania on the Danube

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your phone and Chromebook. This is CVSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Moldova is a republic. It is nestled between Ukraine and Romania on the Black Sea Basin border. It is threatened by the Russian Federation.

0:46.0

I welcome Yvonne Estradner of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy to help me understand this story.

0:52.0

Most recently, a nation of two and a half million,

0:55.0

the second poorest in the whole of the EU,

0:58.0

has advanced another step towards joining the EU.

1:00.0

It is not a member of NATO.

1:02.0

It is a country that's been handed back and forth between

1:06.8

Romania and the Soviet Union at least for the last 100 years the people speak Romanian right now is a democracy. It's a democracy

1:15.8

that's vital to the region. It's on the Danube and it's in trouble.

1:19.0

Ivana, a very good evening to you. Why is such a lovely place that wants to develop for its

1:25.1

people in trouble? What's happened? Good evening to you. Good evening and thank you very

1:29.6

much for inviting me. So when it comes to Moldova it's a truly fascinating place and many people in the

1:38.5

West haven't probably even heard of it prior to the full scale invasion when actually putting, not directly but indirectly

1:49.8

basically threatened the future of Moldova.

1:54.0

And basically, you know, Ukraine is not the only European nation whose sovereignty has been threatened by Russia.

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