Putin's Next Target? The Moldova - Transnistria Issue
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- As the war in Ukraine rages on, Putin may have set his sights on another target. Find out the full story here...
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While my birth certificate says USSR, I was born in Moldova. That's what my Canadian passport also says. When people asked me where I'm from, for most of my life I would say "Russia" just because I'd get the strangest look if I tell them "Moldova". Only people from that part of the world even know Moldova exists. Thank you Mark for shining a light on this tiny poor nation.
I wish you well Leon. I've known about Moldova. I believe I will know more.
Ahh good ol history and it’s effects! Moldova is Romanian territory taken by Russian because of bullshit wars!
@@roderickcampbell2105 Hear hear, Roderick.
Don’t back down Leon by saying you’re from Russia! Take pride and educate people that you’re from Moldova!!
Well ill tell you like I told the Ukrainians gtfo while you can dont stay dont act like you can fight Russian cruise missiles get out.
Hearing Mark Felton talk about an ongoing war is just… what a time to be alive
We are living through interesting times.
This guy is a great teacher,i like how he's blending the historical into the contemporary.
same, just amazed as long time member of this channel.
@@davidcarter1013 there is no blend, he just knows exactly what is going on and how to translate that. 10/10 Mr Felton.
Hope this will not evolve into a full war in Europe
I really appreciate that you're covering current day events, and hope that you continue to do so.
I've heard the idea kicked around of Moldova being willing to incorporate itself into Romania, even if it's just temporarily. That would essentially make the region of Moldova instantly NATO territory, which would greatly complicate things for Russia.
Romania is a part of EU so I suspect all EU members would have to approve. Even if moldovans want this (they didn't until now), I doubt mr Orban of Hungary would approve (he's a friend of Putin).
I think part of the reason that transnistria is attempting secession is because they were concerned about Moldova joining Romania, so that would be a strange self fulfilling prophecy if Moldova joined Romania after all.
Why?? If neighbours don't threaten Russia what's the problem?
@@daviddoran3673 bro. ukraine didn't even threaten russia. and the russian battle plans lukashenko (a russian ally) was dumb enough to leak, shows a arrow going into moldova.
Stalin deliberately made a mess of the ethnic regions in the Soviet Union, in an effort to control them. We are still dealing with the mess he made from injecting Russians into other people's territory. Putin is a big fan of Stalin so we should not be surprised by any bizarre or totally evil act of his.
Dear Dr. Felton, thank you for sharing this perspective on the situation of my country. I doubt any resistance from our people in the case of an invasion, since the national identity is basically lost, some identifying themselves as Romanians, others (older people) having nostalgia towards USSR, others not caring at all. Also while under Soviets, Moldovans were very loyal, compared to Ukraine, people who always cherished their own language and traditions, even under Soviets. I just hope there will be no provocations, since the events of 1992 still haunt our memories.
There will always be provocations, either by those who can't resist being provocated, provocateurs, or those looking for provocations to be used as an excuse for some action.
@@Ted-Stryker Dude is simply making a video based on a topic that is now public discourse. Russia's ambitions towards Eastern Europe are now pretty well apparent after the invasion of Ukraine and the article released by Russian state TV which suggested a goal of pushing back NATO to it's 90's borders. The fact that Russia wants to take back Moldova as well as the Baltic states is not really surprising in that context.
@@Ted-Stryker There was never such an agreement and 6% of Russia borders NATO which is a defensive alliance so yeah they are surrounded allright....
Why did you watch this video if you feel so strongly against Mark’s views? I know everyone is entitled to their own opinions- however Marks videos are facts based. He does sometimes make assumptions but clearly states this. I wish mark was in charge of the BBC
@@greggweber9967 Do you mean provoked?
There were very large groups of ethnic Germans living in Bessarabia. Part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was that these Germans would be resettled to Germany. My father was born in Besserabia near Peterstal, and they were resettled near Bremen.
idkw would germans want them back when those germans already fled germany on their own will
@@nnggghhaa3709 Fled Germany?? Germanic people had spread all throughout Europe before there even was a Germany. They moved in search of more farmable land, Eastern Europe was not as densely populated after many centuries of brutal migrations so, it was only logical.... Feudal Europe wasn't Nationalistic. Hell, if you go back to the 3rd century, the Gothic invasions the brought the Roman Empire to its knees came from present day Ukraine.
Very interesting, did your father and your grandfathers spoke german before get resettled? Do you know why you ancestors settled there in first places?
@@nnggghhaa3709 They did not fled they settled in different parts of Europe even in Russia.
@@oni2662 There were large German speaking enclaves. These settlements were mostly founded during the time of Peter the Great, or Catherine. The Germans who settled there were prommised semi-autonomy, and that they coild keep their language and religion. What Russia got were more farmers.
They spoke plattsdeutch, with a bit of Schwabish, and a few russian loan words.
Largest settlements were in Besserabia, and near Odessa. Many of them imagrated to the US post war, and settles either in the California central valley or in South Dakota.
2:37 The " language and culture of the Moldovan people" is Romanian.
Always has been.
@@busterkeyl Transnistria is something created by Stalin to bring Russians into Moldova while he sent Moldovans on death trains in Siberia.
@far left louis mate, go live in any village in Romania for a couple of months and then in any village in Rep. of Moldova. other then some Russian loan-words, you will not even notice you crossed a border. There's your source.
@far left louis - Then how about this - ruclips.net/video/nlutiBFA4Pc/видео.html
@far right louis Moldovan is literally a dialect of Romanian
i don't comment enough on your videos mark, but they're dependable for great information, i watch them as often or as soon as I can, and you do outstanding work. Thanks!
More informative and detailed than MSM.
Next target? Lol He needs to worry about getting food, gas and other supplies to the front
He isn’t going into Moldova … He will normalize relations and then absorb them through annexation
The oligarchs steal everything from the military. Paper tiger Russia.
That's the best piece on the subject I've seen in all media at the moment, thank you !
Would have loved more details on how Bessarabia disappeared
There was no Bessarabia before 1812. There was only Moldova. It is why after WW1, they voted to reunite with Romania. Bessarabia was an artificial state, like the Moldovan SSR formed in 1924 as an instrument to facilitate the future reanexation of Bessarabia. In a sense the war in Transnistria had the role to block the union between Moldova and Romania.
Most incisive and authoritative analysis of the Russian aims, please continue!
Awesome. We have Mark Felton videos on wars in real time now. Thanks Mark, Love your channel!
Excellent video… very informative as usual. Many thanks, Dr. Felton!
Moldova used to be part of Romania until after WW2. They speak the Romanian language and have strong cultural ties. Perhaps Moldovans should ask for a reunification with some sort of autonomy. Becoming Romanian territory and now under NATO protection would immediately make the Russian be forced to leave Transnistria or else.
If we had normal politicians on both sides (Romania & Moldova) Yes, it would be the normal thing to do and such an occasion will come maybe in next 50 years or 100.But they are so corrupt & idiots (on both sides) that this think will not happen.
Alot of countries use to be apart of another or not. Moldovans are split on reunification, thus why it is not happening and Romanians themselves are too because of the economic implications. But, there is something you do not keep in mind. Moldova would have to give up their claim on the pridenestrovia republic region or tranistria and then the gagauz republic in moldova will have the right to secede and will as they are a pro russian and wanted indépendance from Moldova prior.
Romanians fo not have special minority autonomy whereas moldova does. Romania has a hungarian minority of which this would cause implications assuming a reuinification comes.
Thus it seems your proposal would not work
@@h0lynut Transnistria or Gagauz Moldova preferred to have a conflict with a nuclear power. "Moldovan" but not Romanian.
Lol or else what
@@hadrianaugustus5712 or else nato will wipe russia off the map
We NEED this information from YOU.
I know this isn’t your normal content, but these aren’t normal times.
PLEASE DO A LIVE STREAM ABOUT THIS SUBJECT!!!
At least keep covering it!!
There is however a way that Moldova could instantly join NATO and the EU: agree to be annexed by Romania, which is already a member. Which wouldn't exactly be a difficult transition for Moldova. Romanian and Moldovan are the same language, and Romania was created by the merger of Moldavia and Wallachia. The idea of Romanians and Moldovans being separate nationalities was invented by the Soviets to discourage the people of the Moldavian SSR from seeking reunification with the nation they'd been stripped away from.
That would require lots of changed laws. Plus, there’s the issue of Transnistria, the issue of Gagauz(sp?), and the issue of massive Russian influence, a large Russian/Ukrainian minority, the issue of lack of rule of law, etc…
I think Maia Sandu is pulling the country in the right direction but it still has a long way to go.
Every EU member would have to agree though and Bulgaria definitely wouldn't as their president is a friend of Putin
@@benjaminbronnimann3966 It wouldn't require any agreement from other EU or NATO members. Romania is already a member of both the EU and NATO. If Moldova agreed to be incorporated into Romania, that would automatically make them part of the EU and NATO.
It's just like how East Germany became part of the EU and NATO by reunifying with West Germany, rather than needing to go through its own admission process.
Excellent as always. Love the current events videos.
Events of centuries past are having real world consequences now. Thank you Mark Felton for the history lesson!
ThanksMark for the interesting video. A classmate is married to a Georgian woman and her relatives are terrified that Georgia is Putin's next target. In 2008 there was war and Putin occupied South Ossetia. Perhaps you could make a video is Georgia could be a target of Putin, since it Also wants to join the EU.
On the plus side for Georgia, Russia seems to be pulling some soldiers out of South Ossetia to send to Ukraine. Possibly a sign there’s no plans to do anything there in the near future.
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wow scorpo nobody commented on you
I just want to say that I respect your impeccable research. I watch quite a few historical channels on here and without fail someone in the comments corrects some facts from the video. Don’t believe I’ve ever seen that here
Well, you probably can't understand how hard it is for me as a Romanian to say this, but they kinda got it coming by this point. It's been exactly 30 years since the first reunification proposal and the "moldavians" still refuse to re-join Romania. I used brackets because "moldavian" is just a regional reference, not an ethnicity or nationality, they're actually Romanian in every way except the Stalinist mentality they so passionately embraced, refusing to take for free what their grandfathers fought and died for: getting back together with their nation. Even now, with the red army at our doorstep, Romania would likely go for a hasty reunion, but modern "moldavians" don't really want that. If you don't believe me just follow the comments on this thread, it's gonna be a s*it-show of angry posts, some from fellow Romanians calling me a traitor for saying things as they really are (not as we wish they were), but mostly from "moldavians" offended that I don't acknowledge them as a separate nation. It's painful but it had to be said.
Why don't the Modavons want to rejoin with Romania?
E trist frate,multi dintre moldoveni sunt spalati pe creier,rusificati,invatati de mici copii de catre carpele rosii ca noi romanii le am facut doar rau,si ca ei sunt un popor separat de noi,evident ca astea s doar niste prostii comuniste,dar care s au intins pe generatii multe incat acuma se simt…
how can they be just a regional referemce when we freed you from the ottoman empire several times and gave your territories back. The biggest defeat of the ottomans was suffered in Moldova. In Moldova we are not afraid to walk on the streets because of gypsies like you are in romania and our people are very different. This guy also forgot to say that the was was with USSR not with transnitria and the cease fire was signed with russia not with transnitria and that before the rebellion from transnistria russia already had sent there an army but pretended like they were not russian soldiers.
I watched some of bald & bankrupt channels vids and when he travelled in Moldova just about everyone there spoke Russian with him, although I'd guess most are bilingual and also speak Romanian.
@@heavyguy2035 You're confusing the Principality of Moldova with Basarabia. The current Moldova is actually just the region of Basarabia, a small part of that principality. Also if you're talking about The Battle of Vaslui, Vaslui is in Romania. You, a small part of what used to be the Principality of Moldova (and is now just the region of Moldova in Romania) didn't free anyone from the Ottomans. Neither did Stefan cel Mare for that matter, the Ottomans just came back later for all of us.
I'm sort of addicted to these historical snippets ... many are quite chilling ...
All of the Russian majority regions in Ukraine and also Transnistria / Moldova as well as the waters around Crimea have major oil and gas deposits discovered in them and Putin does not want his Petro monopoly to Europe broken.
I think many times in history CCCP/Russia was replacing documents of population in some territories with ones they have issued, later claiming those are Russian demographic regions because they have Russian documents.
Not just replacing documents. They deported tens of thousands of locals and replaced them with Russian "settlers". That's what they did in Moldova so they can later have a claim on it.
The CCCP? That would be the SSSR, the letters are Cyrillic characters, though I’m sure the Chinese Communist Party appreciates the shoutout
You saying that their great great grandparents lied to them that they are actually Russian?? Kinda hard to loss your culture only after 3 generation tho.
In 2014 a CCH of the 1 REG - French Foreign Legion stole a load of MAG 58s, .50 CALs and Beretta 9mm pistols from the armourery. Loaded them up into his van, on the Friday night of a long bank holiday weekend. Apparently he took them to Transnistria, where he was from. As I understand the weapons were never recovered and he's never been caught, which makes sense given its a self governed unrecognised state.
Was that you? ; )
@@Paul-dv4dr Haha nah I was just a new Legionnaire on the regiment when that happened but I always remembered it, and was impressed by the audacity of it and had been interested in that mad little part of the world ever since. Interesting times......
The US has a long record of helping people when it's nearly too late. South Korea has been attacked by North Korean tanks and heavy artillery because America didn't supply them with heavy weaponry to resist the North Korean invasion. Now we're seeing the same in Ukraine, no military support until the very last minute right before the Russians attack.
Escalation Anxiety.
Yeah, American foreign policy is not known for foresight. I wonder what their reaction will be when such things happen to them: e.g. if Putin decides People's Republic of Alaska needs to have close ties to "motherland"? And don't think this cannot happen. American politics is unstable enough to lead to such an outcome.
Finally, I know where Transnistria is. I've heard it mentioned before, but never knew where it was!
One of the few trustworthy sources on the matter in question. Thank you so very much Mark Felton.
Thanks for the geopolitical lesson, I know little about the history of the area.
A larger nation absorbing neighboring countries because they have minorities of the same culture, where have I heard that before?
The Germans on our border were some immigrants that no one forced us to come to us, they considered themselves better all the time and refused to inherit, but the Russians in Ukraine or "Moldova" found themselves there with some communist scribbles on the map, which did not mean much in the USSR. but after the disintegration of the country from the beginning there were a number of ethnic border conflicts of ethnic groups who found themselves in a foreign state at their place of origin, Ukraine is just one of several such cases, in the Caucasus or even Central Asia we find another.
It has always been weird that so many commercial shipping vessels carry the Moldova flag as their registry. The souther approach across Ukraine makes sense as the Russians can link up with the Transnistria region and create a vice.
I also found the visit by Anthony Blinken few days ago, strengthening ties, a good indication they have additional intelligence on this. Great video as always :-)
I look forward to more understanding of these former USSR regions; please do more as this information is so lacking in our education to comprehend what is happening today.
I trust Dr. Felton but I distrust everything on the mainstream media.
Let me put it this way. Speaking about "Moldovan" language is the same as speaking about "Alaskan" language. Assume USSR occupied Alaska in 1940, deported half the American population to Siberia, replaced some of them with russians, and then forced the original Alaskan (i.e. American) population to write their native English with Cyrillic letters. Then feeding the population constant propaganda how USSR saved them from American hegemony and how unique their "Alaskan Identity" is. That's what happened to Bessarabia (aka Republic of Moldova). Nothing more, nothing less. Moldova is to Romania what Alaska is to USA.
Luhansk and Donetsk before the 2014 invasion were NOT majority ethnic Russian, both were just below 50% ethnic Russian, the majority speak Russian because of decades of Ukrainian language suppression by the USSR but that does not make them ethnic Russian anymore than a English speaking person in Ireland is English.
There is no ethnic difference between Russians and Ukranians. They are the same people. The only difference is that Western Ukraine is culturally different due to their history being occupied by Poland and Austria. Also in the USSR there was never an official language, so all were allowed to be used.
The reason why the East is more pro-Russian is because they are culturally closer to Russia while the west is culturally closer to Poland and Central Europe. However ethnically they are all Russian, as Russian infact is simply a term for all East Slavic peoples including Muscovites, Novgorodians, White Russians, and Ukranians among others.
I dare to disagree. Ukrainians and Bielarusians are ruthenian nations. Russia is not, its culturally much more Asian than European. The reason they have changed their name to Russia (Grand dutch of Moscow, Moscovia before) is to claim rights to ruthenian lands. I disagree also with term "polish occupation" since it suggest existence of Ukrainian state (it wasn't the case) and to be precise it was polish-lithuenian commonwealth.
@@BenyNukem How is it more culturally Asian? Ethnically they are Slavic, they are also Orthodox Christian, they follow slavic tradtions, their language is East Slavic exactly like Ukranian and Belarusian. How are they any different from them?
True but also autocracy and very big percentage of ethnic mongolidoid background (so certainly tradition do same extend)
@@BenyNukem No evidence of that. Russian ethnicity is much closer to Ukranian than it is Mongolian.
Moldova has two options: or making an agreement to handover Transnistria or to sign a capitulation.
Russia*
@@bronekjeszczeniezdechchwaakrl why russia? I think a russian batallion is as big as moldovas army
Or WWIII
Moldova could fight, but it would only last a few days at most. Even with say modern arms and perhaps 100,000+ retreating Ukrainian "veterans" and volunteers going there, they certainly won't last and would be forced to capitulate. Of course, during the final "weeks" of the Ukrainian conflict, they could create some defensive line along the Transnistria border and that of Ukraine, but that would only stall Russian forces, who could just bombard the whole line from a distance after moving troops directly into Transnistria.
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That's reasonable expectation.
Thanks.
Never knew about this, I’m surprised Bald & Bankrupt haven’t made a video from here?!
Transnistria shouldn't be recognized and destroyed.
Moldova is Part of Romania! Period🇷🇴!
I’m a Moldovan citizen and I want to make it clear to the whole World,
Republic of Moldova is a product of Molotov Ribbentrop pact, and like it wasn’t enough breaking us apart they cut the South and North of our country and glued them artificially to Ukraine!
Big powers always played with the destiny of small nations!
The Historical True should prevail again!
Why do you guys not simple vote to join Romania? Honestly I'm curious, joining would instantly bring you under NATO sphere.
@@Groundedrootshealing we’ve tried in June 1991 and immediately got the Transnistria conflict artificially sparked by Soviets and new Russia
Currently we can’t reunite until the Transnistria conflict is not solved and both EU and Russia gives OK for it
@@sergeshoemaker5218 Thank you for the reply, is there anyway to allow the Transnistria republic to separate in which there would be a path to unite with Romania? Im sure the Russians would drag their feet on this with the current conflict next door. At the very least the west should be arming you guys to the teeth and now!
@@Groundedrootshealing cause there are a lot of Russian, Ukrainian people too and I’m one of them. We simply don’t want to join with Romania because we’re not romanians. Romanian people from Moldova should go to Romania. In West Moldova are some Romanians but where I’m from if you find 10 of them then you’re a detective hahahaha.
The Romanian people in Moldova should better go to their native land. We don’t want them. The Russian language should be the main spoken one. Even the capital was changed from Kishinev to chisinau after USSR. Americans are trying to divide us from Russia. We felt very good with USSR and the Russian Empire . I hope we will reunite with the Russian federation.
Your insights on the current conflict with an eye on the history of the region and very much appreciated Dr. Felton. May history not repeat.
😆 all he's doing is putting out a bunch of crap just to get clicks he's nothing short of a hypocrite then again Mark is a Brit so what would you expect
2:34 what distinctive language are you refering to Dr. Felton? Romanian is spoken in both countries, only the accent is slightly different in Moldova
Who knows what their intentions are, Lukashenko is so dumb it's hard to tell if that map was genuine or propaganda. Given Ukrainian resistance I doubt that could on to take Moldova or Transnistria now though? Great videos on this subject in the past few days Mark, thanks 👍👍
Dumb. Transnistria has around 1000-2000 Russian peacekeeper forces. It's not even enough to invade and at the same time man the border.
Fun fact - FSB is searching for the word "cockroach" on Russian Smartphones because it's a common nickname there for Lukashenko
Excellent presentation!
So glad Mark Felton covered this
Interesting.
One observation, and I expect it will not go over well with the other commenters.
I don't think this is a Putin thing, I think it is a Russian thing this is based both on a moderate knowledge of Russian history. My mother's family almost wiped out by Stalin Russia is not on my Christmas card list this year, but this whole situation seems predictable to me.
No matter who is in charge Russia is not going to take the West on its doorstep particularly well.
Having said that I don't have a good solution because the various positions all have miles of daylight between them.
There's not going to be any peace unless one side gives up its ambitions and somebody either Eastern or Western Ukraine gets thrown under the bus.
" No matter who is in charge Russia is not going to take the West on its doorstep particularly well." Stupid comment. Putin is an Soviet Ex-KGB stooge who still thinks communism has its merits. Just become friendly with the West by stop trying to take over all of Europe constantly for the past 80 years and let go of corrupt and failed ideology of communism.
@@Ronin4614 I wonder if anyone else here has seen that meeting that rubber stamped the invasion where Putin, well, I'm not sure what word to use, mocked, or teased his intel guy because the guy didn't seem fully committed to the invasion? Anyway, Putin seemed to me like a small boy torturing an insect. There are rumors that his intel guys are now under house arrest, maybe because their estimates were a bit off.
Thank you Sir! You content is top notch.
Some mistakes in the video: the ussr took bessarabia and northern bucovina from romania, but the soviet republic of moldova was made up only by a part of bessarabia and a thin strip of land taken from ukraine - that is transnistria. Ukraine got the northern bessarabia and the south of bucovina which are still part of ukraine even today. Another thing: transnistria declared independence from the soviet republic of moldova in september 1990, and again declared its independence from ussr in 25 august 1991, BEFORE moldova declared its own independence from ussr in 27 august, same year. :)) Plus, the war in 1992 was not between moldova and transnistria, but between moldova and russia (as russian president and moldovan president signed the truce in 1992 - there is no peace treaty up til now)
Facebook wouldn't let me like.. I hit unlike then retried to like and it let me finally. Your videos as always, are very well researched and made. Thank you!
"Russia could avoid a war with the West". A direct conflict, maybe, but Russia is already fighting the West by proxy in Ukraine. It should expect the same if it invades any part of Moldova.
And the more territory Russia that attempts to annex or invade, the more that it plays into the narrative that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is similar to the Nazi annexation of Austria and the Sudatenlands and it's invasion of Czechoslovakia. And so it strengthens the narrative that if the West appeases then it might encourage a greater Russian expansion.
No appeasement either as well and Russia is in a state of general decline.
@Albert Strauss the Anschluss is similar to the annexation of Crimea in 2014; in that the territory did not resist and that the West didn't do much about it.
Other recent Russian land-grabs have similarities with other pre-WW2 Nazi land-grabs, the Western response to these grabs.
@Albert Strauss if you'd actually read my original comments properly, instead of strawmanning me, you'd realise that this is not what i said.
I didn't use the Anschlus as a moral benchmark. I specifically didn't use the Anschlus as an example on its own. I specifically mentioned it in the contest of the Sudatenlands and the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. These were all conquests of neighbouring territory, but were all achieved in different ways.
The reason that the Anschlus and the taking of the Sudatenlands is similar to the Russian actions in Ukraine from 2014 onwards, is that a major rationale for both of these actions was the unification of a common people wrongly divided by an artificial border.
The Nazi rational was to unite all Germanic peoples into one nation, and a significant Russian rationale is unite all Slavic people into one nation.
The point is that when Hither did this, no one stopped him. And when Russia annexed Crimea and stoked separatist civil wars in ethnically Russian areas of Ukraine, no one stopped them.
Then, the Nazis moved past the unification of German people and invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia. The West allowed this. One narrative is that Putin will want to push beyond traditionally Slavic populations if he is not stopped and will want to continue Westwards. How realistic this idea is, I don't know. But, my point is that for every new nation He invades, this narrative gets more credibility.
@Albert Strauss you really don't want to listen, do you? But sure, just keep telling me what you want me to have said or think that I said, instead of reading and understanding what I actually did say...
That map is really amusing for some reason they have US 1st cavalry divisions logo up there:D
I disagree, I believe taking Moldova might be too much. I could however see them reinforcing and recognizing transnistria
Transnitria is a key that putin will try to justify moldova's invasion if it ever happens, look at the georgian war in 2008 and ukranian war in 2014, thats the tactic he has been using to gain influence in those regions.
Kudos for covering what's going on. Excellent method of presentation.
Again, a very clear explanation of a difficult problem. Thank you.
🛑 21 dead, 25 injured, 10 of them have extraordinary complications due to heavy shelling in Kharkiv region, - the city's Prosecutor's Office.
In Merefa, at 3:30am, a school, culture house, and several residential houses destroyed as the result of russian shelling.
Every hospital in the Ukraine has been levelled...next will be the transgender drop in centres....the Russians always bomb centres...it started in Syria I believe...centres and cat sanctuaries....scallywags!!!!
@@daviddoran3673 Fantasy! The USA and NATO are experts at mass destruction and creating bloodbaths.
4:20. Incorrect. There are 2 nations that recognize Transnistria as an independent nation. Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
It would have been correct to say that Transnistria is not recognized by any UN member nation.
The soundtrack of this channel is epic
It sings history
2:21 Moldova wasn’t created by the soviet union, it was created by the russian empire as after a war that Ottomans lost. The Romanian Principalities became an autonomous reagion, and gave the russians permission to stop any revolts that might happen. Basserabia started being controlled by the russians as an assurance. It then later became a ‘’Gubernie’’, basically they fully joined the Russian Empire. It gained independence when the russian empire started falling apart. With all the territories you can see on the screen. It then joined Romania. It was then stripped apart from Romania in the 1940’s as part of the Robrintrov-Molotov pact, the russian also occupied Bukovina, something the Germans didn’t agree on. The Moldovan Socialist Republic was then stripped apart from strategically important territories and given to the Ukrainians, because Moldova was thought to be unstable. They lost the south, became a landlocked country and lost Bukovina. And Moldovanian became the national language, basically romanian with russian letters. Long story short. At nearly the fall of the Soviet Union the Moldovans didn’t go to Moscow and ask that their old territories be given back, prolly because they didn’t even know those territories were Moldovan, because of the wide spread propaganda, even in school books. Moldova became independent and so with independacy cane problems with the russians, because Moldova and all of the Soviet sister republics were in need of specialist for all types of domanians they sent in russians with the guarantee that they’d get a free apartment and high salary. Moldova was in need of engineers. So engineers were sent, mostly russian and armenian. So the russian population grew even more. Moldova when it was in the hands of the russian empire they tried to russify it, and failed, because of the poverty that was widespread, the common people still spoke romanian, while the high class spoke russian, it still nearly doubled the population of people that weren’t of romanian heritage. In 1992 the civil war was a thing, no one won, and Transnistria is still a self proclaimed republic which only russians accept its proclamation. Transnistria was never romanian, it was won during the second world war by romanians and was a lot bigger. The reason we can’t get rid of it is that it’s been so long in under our control, they’ve become Moldovan. Transnistria is a pain in the ašš, because it stops us fron joining the EU and potentially unify with Romania. Even though cyprus has territory problems and was accepted in the EU. The territories given to Ukraine are still under their control, the romanian population is basically nonexistent, from 250 schools in 2004 ( I think ) to only 9 today that are romanian.
if the world can accept Moldaoa independence, why can the world accept Transnistria leaving Moldova ? I understand the history tangle and shit about what belongs to whom in history, but so are all the independence states. The most obvious of all would be USA, Canada and Australia. But then, on the other hand, i would like Moldova to have access to the black sea.
Insightful, well-supported and informative. Many thanks for sharing .
cool that . looking forward to it .
Moldova actually threw a wrench in Russia's plans in Ukraine. A few weeks ago, they demanded that Russia withdraw its troops from Transnistria. As the map shows, they were likely to send those troops in Transnistria as part of the encirclement of Odessa. But because Russian forces failed to push west past Mykolaiv, and because of Moldova's demand, they left those forces stationed in Transnistria. The situation has also changed for the "Pridnestrian Republic", who had been working on closer ties with Ukraine both economically and politically. Right now, they're likely wondering if Russia is really the ally they want.
Pridnestrian Republic --> Transnistria
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria
@@elektrotehnik94 Transnistria = A geographically defined area subject to a polity. Pridnestrian Repubilc = An entity of State.
Key distinction.
As a Moldovan, thank you
Mark can you do a video on the 6th armies losses in Kiev due to remote controlled explosions which the Soviets employed after the city fell in 1941.
I stand corrected and apologize to Dr Mark Felton. I had written the first video off of Ukraine/Russian conflict as topical fluff. Thank you for diving deep into the discussion. 👍🏼
2 guys I worked with were from Moldova. Great fellas.
Romania in 1940 recieved an ultimatum to leave Moldova to Rusia otherwise Rusia will attack, so romanians left the administration
Romania then allied with Germany and attacked rusians in 1940, retake Moldova and lost it again in 1944 when Germany began to redraw from Moscow after some internal politic change Romania left German alliance
The ultimatum was not about moldova, but bessarabia and northern bucovina. There was no moldova back then.
@Albert Strauss Yes, king Micheal wich was german had to leave german alliance because he knew rusians will occupy estern europe
Romanian general Antonescu who was prime-minister was arrested and executed in a fast decision .
@Albert Strauss That was king Michael's decision he was GERMAN and he was 20 years at that time.
General Antonescu the PM was arrested and killed
After that Romania was under soviet and thousands of priests, peasants and teachers were send to political prisons tortured and killed
@Albert Strauss And that alliance had problems Hitler gave hungarian dictator Horty a part of Transilvania in 1940 and many romanians were against both rusian and german alliance and wanted neutrlity
Romanian from Transilvania were attacked by hungarians and romanians from Moldova by rusians
Moldova has another option: Reunifying with Romania. A move which may be needed as while the Romanian army isn't that much better we're always gonna be ready to defend our brothers from across the Prut river.
And technically it would also be an attack on NATO if Moldova became part of Romania again.
That's clearly Moldova's best option. As part of Romania they'd instantly gain NATO protection, just like East Germany did when it reunified with West Germany. But really, reunification with Romania has been Moldova's best option for decades, and hasn't happened because Moldovans themselves are split on the issue. (Not entirely surprising, given the decades of Soviet propaganda up until 1991 to convince them that they're not Romanians, and even telling them that Moldovan and Romanian are different languages regardless of every word being the same.) But support for reunification was already growing even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's still not a majority, but opposition is no longer a majority either. And the pro-Russia, anti-Romania party got trounced in last year's Moldovan elections.
Moldovans might not realize it, but Ukrainians are buying them the time they *could* use to settle this issue. Hopefully they will.
Giving initiative to russia and putin is never a good idea, moldova needs mass mobilization and heavy weapons to seize control of transnistria and to be ready for a russian attack or even to help ukraine defend themself.
Keep up the good work
I don't advocate for war but Azerbaijan gave a pretty good example on how to deal with unrecognized countries.
I for sure would like to hear Taiwans opinion about that
Hey Mark, you forgot to mention that before the invasion of russian army in 1990, the population of Transnistria was the following: 39% Moldavians, 26% ukranians, and 24% russians. They all lived in peace before the war. Genocide of moldavian popluation happened during these years until now... Now the popluation of moldavians in Transnistria is around 20%.
We will never forget that! In this life or in the next life the russian empire will pay for all the atrocities that they made on to these beautiful people and land.
The Moldovans weren't killed, the vast majority just left. Please don't lie.
@@arbendit4348 Did I say that all of them were killed? So, what's the lie Mr. Genius? Russians bombed cities, kindergartens. etc same as they do in Ukraine and all the actions were against Moldovans and you expect people to stay and continue to die? Oh boy, oh boy... Sadly, we didn't have the military power to fight like Ukraine is fighting now!
@@anonimtransnistrean9316 You talked about a "genocide of moldovans" as the reason whythey are fewer now, when even if some incidents did occur there was no such policy. If you didn't want the war to happen you should have granted them independence or at least a large amount of autonomy. Russia doesn't factor into that.
@@arbendit4348 Yes, indeed it was a genocide, against the local population. For facts look into General Lebed, interview in 1992. With all the lies, he still mentions about the genocide of the local population and how they lived in peace before. And the genocide, continued after the peace, as they tried to erase anything moldovan from our land. They closed every school in our language and jailed many professors, they erased our culture. Regarding the independence as you mentioned, I understand, maybe you don't have enough information to understand this war. There is not much written, mostly translated from Russia. So, if you have an IQ above the room temperature (in Celsius) than you might understand how real the events are presented. The russian propaganda blocked all the true information at that time, the internet was not there and Moldova was a small country to counter the disinformation. Anyway, for your bullshit of "Russia doesn't factor into that" - The war started with the same narrative as in Ukraine, the fascists are coming to take the land, there were papers giving to the locals writing that romanians fascists are coming. This is a typical copy-paste project of russian KGB, where they implement a fear of war so they keep unstable regions in their sphere of influence, so they can control countries that left soviet union. And then the russian army brings the peace. :) Aaand you know what they bombed a kindergarten the same way they started in Ukraine this year, just before the the real bombings of 24th of February 2022. They always do the same stuff. And what independence you mean? The one that even the russian locals of 24% of population where not agreeing? What independece are you talking about? the one that even the police from Bender that they were native russians, put by the russians a few years before the events, were still defending moldovans and fighting against the russian army understanding better the situation? what independece? russia brought russian inmates just before the war in different regions to start vandalize villages and demoralize people? russia brought don cossacks from Rostov to terrorize locals and rape women..what independence are you talking?
People who have watched Bald and Bankrupt : No, I've heard of that
I'm starting to think Putin developed his tactic of "just the tip" invasions to be one that would work in all lands he wanted to recapture for Russia. He did this in Georgia, now Ukraine, and Transnistria looks geographically susceptible for the same kind of move.
To be clear, the strategy was invented by the NKVD during Stalin’s era, which came up with absurd borders for all of the outlying republics (see the Fergana Valley where 4 central Asian countries all have land including dozens of pointless enclaves and exclaves) and populated many of them with Russians, all to make it impossible to escape the Russian orbit long after the would-be Soviet collapse, which finally happened in 1991. Between 1991 and 1992, wars sponsored by Yeltsin’s new nominally pro-American Russia were fought to establish Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia then built a naval base in former KGB hub Abkhazia.
Putin later came to power used Georgia’s miscalculation over South Ossetia to invade all of Georgia and force Tbilisi to capitulate. Putin then granted recognition to Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
From this it seems he realized in his own right that it could be a viable strategy, going a step further in Crimea by actually annexing the short-lived breakaway state, the first time that had happened, and then repeating the exercise in the Donbas, although he was forced to temporarily pause this for several years after the plane shootdown.
All that was covered in a recent video showing the background of the conflict over on the Wayback history channel
Culturally Moldova is almost synonymous with Romania, although many over the age of 20 read, write and speak Russian and Cyrillic too, but Romanian is the first language. English the third. Moldova was and is an economic disaster but The people there are friendly, warm and aspirational towards the West. They would suffer greatly to be drawn back into the Russian ambit.
Moldova will suffer more if they ally with the west. Most of their population will leave for Germany, and the war in Transnistria will start again.
@@arbendit4348 so Moldova and Romanian are rich now?
Zdob si Zdob band (Moldova) know how to warm a party!
@@user-pl8kc2lo1r in comparison Romania (EU member) has 300 Billions euro GDP / year , while Moldova (non alligned) 12 Billions euro GDP / year ,now calculate yourself
In the ussr we didn’t suffer at all. People in general had more money and had better roads. This is not an European written propaganda. That’s a fact from my family members. Remember I’m half Ukrainian half Russian born in Moldova and there are a lot of non balkans people. We’re not the same. We look very different too
The thing that led me to know Moldova as a country is the epic sax guy.
You called it!!
Many Moldovans were transferred to Siberia, replacing them with Russian citizens.
Most my family is from Transnistria.. Crazy to see them on the map for the first time
@Alex Macedonian Yes. Its called: Transnistria.. Dont stress yourself
Thank you
When Moldova attacked Moldova, at first no one understood anything. When Georgia attacked Georgia, thoughts began to come that all this looked somehow cloudy. A clear understanding of what was happening came when Ukraine attacked Ukraine. Russia is terribly unlucky with its neighbors - they constantly attack themselves. Soon it will be seen that Belarus will attack Belarus, and Kazakhstan recently also attacked itself, but unsuccessfully. Everywhere "civil wars” and only in Russia a happy life on TV. How lucky are the Russians with TV.
Another very informative video on the current situation in The Ukraine war.
Another current event video, thanks Mark. I can see how Russia could love to add them to the Southern Corridor above Crimea.
Yo just wanna say, Mark's pronunciation especially of Luhansk and Donetsk are perf.
I live near the border with Transnistria in a Moldavian village, I hope it remains peaceful here.
Three men i served in Iraq with are in country of Ukraine , they said that they are involved in training some nationals to go out and fight.
"peacekeeping troops". Right.
My Hermes delivery driver is from Moldova, he went 'home'for the first time in 10 years and instantly came back to the UK when Russia invaded Ukraine
Or maybe his two weeks of vacation were up?
Im half German, half Lithuanian and I havent listened to one song since this invasion began.
Keep up the good work doc 👍🏾
The opportunity to lose wars in two countries at once may just be too great for Russia. 😅
I love how very matter of fact you are with your videos.
2:43 the guy on the left was more interested in the young man on the right than what he was supposed to be looking at lmao
The Russian army would struggle to invade a boy scout camp
Great video
Just so much Russophobia. Also what distinctive language are you talking about in Moldova? The people speak Romanian with some areas where Russian is common.
On the other hand thank you for giving me credit for several of the pictures you used, very professional, not everyone does that.
Would you mind doing a show on who devided Europe in half after WW2? 1
Yeah.... that's gonna get back burnered on figuring out how to unscrew himself out of Ukraine.