@benroyce #Transdnistria didn't "break away" from Moldova in 1990 any more than #Donbas "broke away" from #Ukraine. #Russia, first as USSR under #Gorbachev, then as RF under #Yeltsin, invaded and waged hybrid war using paramilitaries and eventually regular army until they achieved their desired state of frozen conflict. Just as they did around the same to time in #Abkhazia and #SouthOssetia regions of #Georgia.