VP, Due Diligence Startup. ex-@FDD/@C4ADS/@FulbrightPrgrm. Friends of Moldova Committee. MIP @BushSchool, @OhioState alum. Eyes on 🇲🇩 + 🇷🇴. Opinions mine
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Russia's overnight strike on Ukrainian energy infrastructure knocked out the 400kV Isaccea-Vulcănești line — Moldova's main electricity corridor to Europe.
🧵on some context, why this vulnerability matters, and how Moldova is addressing it:
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The “president” of Transnistria Krasnoselsky was decorated by Putin yday. He managed to get to Russia due to talks facilitated by OSCE about winter gas in the region. Chisinau says it will restrict Krasnoselsky’s exit from Moldova for 5 years. Why the exit and not the entrance?
Sad to see Lawler go down, who was a wonderful friend of Moldova.
But the Congressional Moldova Caucus is bigger than ever before. Moldova has so many friends on Capitol Hill. Lots of space for folks to hear Moldova's story in the new Congress.
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Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby is heading to Romania Wednesday after today's meeting in Poland with a group of NATO allies.
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Notable how many vessels bound from Russia to US are sanctioned by EU/UK. said sanctions tend to have less global effect than those under US sanctions.
Being bound to US could still divert to other countries, including regular buyers of Russian diesel (Brazil) or of US (Mexico)
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Many lingering mysteries from these transfers. One that lingers: post-2022 transfers of wind tunnel test data for a flying wing design between Chinese land systems major Norinco and Russia's TsAGI. Rosoboronexport was involved, so military use presumed. But what was it for?
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Absolutely. Also important to note that Sandu (and other highly-ranked officials like speaker Igor Grosu) almost always qualify support for RO unification by saying that there is no majority support for it in MD and that EU integration is the priority (deschide.md/maia-sandu-despr…).
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A rough October for Moldova as Russia continues its attacks on Ukraine: 19 airspace violations last month overall, including 6 that resulted in explosions. The figure also shows dates and localities. Now at 104 incidents since 2022. Source here (army.md/index.php/ro/comunic…).
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"The Blob" is such a beautiful distillation of the Obama years because it was coined by one of the most powerful people on earth at the literal heart of the national security establishment, whining that a bunch of academics did not see the wisdom of his boss's 5d chess moves (i.e. backpeddaling about letting Assad gas civilians)
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Romania is selling bonds on the international market for the first time bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
To be very clear, this is not a new sentiment for Maia Sandu whatsoever. In this interview, she is doubling down on a nearly 10-month-old comment, which she reaffirmed:
- In a January press conference
- In an April interview with Le Monde
- At the Moldova Security Forum in October
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🇧🇪 Belgium’s opposition to using frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine is increasingly indefensible. Brussels has offered to mutualise the financial risks, but Belgium has failed to specify what guarantees it actually needs. The problem is political, not legal. A thread 1/
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‼️ Alertă aeriană majoră, în aproape toate județele din nordul Moldovei, sâmbătă seara. Două drone au venit dinspre Republica Moldova, la interval de o oră, fiind ridicate de la sol patru aeronave F-16, atât de la Câmpia Turzii, cât și de la Fetești, precum și un elicopter.
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Waited until our team crossed the border (back into UA) before commenting on this report, which got me pulled off air yesterday...
But viewers should be aware of the perils and pitfalls of reporting from Russian-occupied Ukraine, where information is tightly controlled and independent journalism faces serious constraints.
.@Shelby_Wilder of Newsmax on Russia’s Oleshky stint:
“Russia is using this humanitarian operation as a propaganda opportunity.
Moscow wants to portray itself as the rescuer of civilians in a city that it occupies, one it has destroyed and plunged into this humanitarian crisis.
And we need to be clear, Russia controls what we are going to be allowed to see.
Moscow appears to have brought in numerous Russian media compared to just the one American news outlet.”
Ah yes — I forgot the only thing standing between us and peace in Ukraine is *checks notes* Baltic rhetoric???
Can't make this up. Pentagon officials are calling European leaders and telling them they are being too mean about Russia. reuters.com/business/finance…
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Începând cu toamna anului 2027, Republica Moldova va achiziționa gaz extras de România în cadrul proiectului Neptun Deep.
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Major data breach in Moldova: a colossal cyber attack withdrew info on 750,000 personal identification numbers egov.md/ro/node/41145
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NEW: We got the list of “Business Deals” the US and Russia are discussing.
They include a potential return by US companies to the Russian oil market as part of wider talks to end Putin’s war, including JVs in Sakhalin and restoring the Druzhba pipeline:
ft.com/content/d703aaae-f607…
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A few Ukraine-related stories in Moldova recently, including illegal border-crossing data, pro-Russian propaganda targeting Chișinău's ties to Kyiv, and brainwashing of ethnic Ukrainians in Transnistrian schools. First, Radio Free Europe has some informative data ...
Romania's SRI confirmed today that the fire at the Carfil plant in Brașov in September was a Russian-directed sabotage operation.
Also alleges that Moscow this year has targeted Romanian arms production, international military facilities, and facilities used for training the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
sri.ro/articole/comunicat-de…
