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Washington is ready to render assistance to Transnistria, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bridget Brink, said on Friday.
"I came to hear what problems and challenges you face and how the United States can help," Brink said during a meeting in Tiraspol with the acting head of foreign affairs of the self-proclaimed republic, Vitaly Ignatyev.The sides discussed a wide range of issues of mutual concern.
Bridget Brink expressed strong interest in obtaining an "objective" picture of the situation in the unrecognized republic.
A sliver of land in eastern Moldova, Russian-speaking Transnistria, broke away from the Moldovan state in the early 1990s after a brief war.
With the conflict "frozen", Transnistria remains home to over a 1,000 Russian peacekeeping troops.
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The problem is that Transnistria does not want to go along with Moldova's vision of the future.
Instead, it has expressed its desire to politically and economically integrate with Russia, and over 1000 Russian peacekeepers are currently stationed there.
Its Russian-speaking and Russian-friendly population fears cultural and ethnic cleansing if Moldova moves closer to the West, since nationalists have been agitating for supposed 'reunification' with cultural cousin Romania.
Moldova the next clash between the West and Russia?
Comment: Russia has played a masterful hand and Washington really has no other options besides doubling down on its 'hybrid warfare' model. So expect more color revolutions, false flags, proxy warfare, and propaganda. Also see: