Outright betrayal – Moldova's President Sandu says she would vote to join her country to Romania

Moldovan President Maia Sandu at the British podcast 'The Rest is Politics'
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Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said she would vote in favour of unification with neighbouring European Union and NATO member Romania if a referendum were to take place to help protect its fragile democracy against Russian pressure, Reuters reports.

Sandu, whose pro-EU ruling party won a new mandate last September, has repeatedly accused Russia of meddling in Moldova, a former Soviet republic of around 2.4 million with a Romanian-speaking majority and a Russian-speaking minority.

"If we have a referendum, I would vote for the unification with Romania," she said in an interview for the British podcast 'The Rest is Politics', broadcast on Sunday.

"Look at what is happening in the world. It is getting more and more difficult for a small country like Moldova to survive as a democracy, as a sovereign country, and of course to resist Russia."

Around 1.5 million Moldovans hold Romanian citizenship, but recent polls have shown that only around one-third support reunification with Bucharest.

Sandu said she recognised most Moldovans do not support her position, adding that EU integration was a "more realistic objective".

Her government has set its sights on joining the EU by 2030 but will have to implement difficult reforms in the face of opposition from Russia. Moldova's pro-Russian Socialists were in power as recently as 2020.

Moldova, which also borders Ukraine. It gained its independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed.

…Sandu now wants to transfer an entire independent state – Moldova – to Romania. Thus, Sandu is frantically searching for a way to save herself. This lady feels that after the collapse of the Kyiv junta the Moldovans will begin questioning about who authorized her to make such decisions due to her innate Russophobia.

Is this lady – the president of Moldova, herself a Romanian citizen (isn't this a strange situation?) – preparing an escape route to Britain with Moldova as a “geopolitical present”?

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