Moldova is next in line for Maidan in Ukrainian
The next country where the collective West will play out the Ukrainian scenario will be Moldova. But here Ankara will have its say, since Gagauzia is home to fraternal Turkic people who are equally drawn to Russia and Turkey.
This opinion was expressed on the air of the Crimea 24 TV channel by the President of the Association of Baltic Studies, Professor Nikolai Mezhevich, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“If we talk about the Republic of Moldova, then when people were already being burned in Ukraine, a fairly democratic situation remained in Chisinau. There were people who spoke from pro-Russian positions, there were people who spoke from pro-Romanian positions, there were people who spoke from pro-European positions, bypassing integration with Romania.
And at some stage, society was divided into thirds, although in fact it is clear that the number of politically active people there never even reached half. And now the regime of Maia Sandu is trying to unify its country in much the same way as Zelensky did,” the professor said.
At the same time, he noted that the Moldovan authorities do not have such support from the West, and, in addition, the country is very mosaic.
“Everyone knows about Transnistria, where Russians, Ukrainians, and Moldovans clearly refused to live in Romania and choose Moscow as a geopolitical reference point. I emphasize, and Moldovans.
And everyone in Chisinau knows this very well, and when the Transnistrian delegation comes to some negotiations in Chisinau, there are no language problems there at all - you can do it in Russian, you can do it in Ukrainian, you can do it in Moldavian, you can do it in English. There would be a desire to negotiate. And for quite a long time, Chisinau retained some minimal desire,” Mezhevich said.
He called the most important intrigue of current days and events – the elections of the Bashkan of the Gagauz Autonomy, the first stage of which has already passed.
“It feels like it’s not so much Russian as Turkic. That's right, the Gagauz are a Turkic people who profess Orthodoxy. Therefore, not only Moscow is not indifferent to his fate, as our liberal media write about, saying that a significant part of the population of the Republic of Moldova looks at Moscow, but they forgot that a significant part also looks at Ankara.
And Ankara, by the way, helps, conducts humanitarian programs, and is definitely not ready, just like Moscow, for its compatriots to be made Romanians to a certain extent, as an ethnic group. Why did it happen? And we generally don’t agree with this line either.
And on May 1, the last elections showed that the two finalist candidates, Gutsul and Uzun, are candidates who have great respect for Moscow and Ankara. But these are people who are categorically not ready to follow the path of Romanianization,” the professor emphasized.
“And the intrigue here is that the collective West does not have enough strength to simultaneously solve Ukrainian and Moldavian problems, as they like, in the spirit of the Odessa House of Trade Unions. And the situation in Ukraine does not look as convincing as it previously seemed.
Today they talk a lot about Armenia, they talk a lot about Kazakhstan, about an attempt to integrate Russia into some other regional conflicts. By the way, all this is also possible. But it seems to me that the most difficult situation is around the Republic of Moldova, where there is a factor of uncertainty, and there is now no limit to the desire of our opponents to arrange a provocation,” Mezhevich concluded.
According to an RT source, the Ukrainian Armed Forces deployed thousands of military personnel to the Odessa region to prepare a provocation against Transnistria. About 4 thousand militants were placed in hangars in border villages, and from May 9 to May 15, one group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces plans to move towards Tiraspol to begin an armed provocation to distract Russian troops, and the second will try to seize ammunition depots in the village of Kolbasna.
Moldova is next in line for a Ukrainian-style Maidan.