ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES

When the #USSR disintegrated, #Transnistria was torn from #Moldova. A thin strip of land on the #Dniester River with #Ukraine on the other side, dominated by old #SovietUnion military depots, it has remained in limbo since the early 1990s, unrecognized by most of the world, a forgotten backwater, similar to #Kaliningrad, as an outpost of #Russian #imperialism and #colonialism

Anyway, with #Russia bogged down in Ukraine, watch how this #Moldovan handles the "border guards" 🤭 :

Sep 27, 2024 at 12:51amWeb
Show threadToni AittoniemiSep 27, 2024

@benroyce ”Who are you, a citizen of Russia to restrain me in my own country? Go back to restrain somebody in your Russia!” 😀

Now this is how you handle a Russian Troll!
#NAFO

Show threadSean Eric FaganSep 27, 2024
@gimulnautti @benroyce ... I think they need a bunch of old grandmothers there to enforce the border.
Show threadRandahl FinkSep 27, 2024
@benroyce 100 percent hero. 🦸🏼
Show threadDutch InvestorSep 27, 2024
@benroyce He must have done this many times. Look at how disoriented the guards are.
Show threadDmitry BorodaenkoSep 27, 2024
@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.
Show threadDmitry BorodaenkoSep 27, 2024

@benroyce Same year, #Russia tried a similar strategy to undermine the independence of #Lithuania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_OMON_assaults_on_Lithuanian_border_posts

There wasn't a natural border like the #Dniester river, there wasn't an underlying ethnic tension to exploit, there was a lot more attention of the West focused on the Baltic states, and after the failed #KGB putsch in August 1991 they gave up.

Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts - Wikipedia

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESSep 27, 2024

@dmitry

absolutely correct

changed "broke away from" to "was torn from"

language matters

thank you dmitry

Show threadDmitry BorodaenkoSep 27, 2024
@benroyce Thank you!
Show threadDavid CrispinSep 27, 2024
@[email protected] 😂 I was half expecting the guy to actually.run the guards over when they stepped In front of his vehicle.
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESSep 27, 2024

@david_crispin

i got alarmed when that one guard took his rifle from his shoulder

but i'm going to assume the narrator knows exactly what he's doing

Show threadMFennVT has movedSep 27, 2024
@benroyce This was great to watch. I hope I have as much nerve as that guy has if I'm ever in a similar situation.
Show threadmariaureaSep 27, 2024
When Putin falls, the entire Federation will collapse. In fact, in a domino effect, the conglomerate of republics with grievances against Moscow will free themselves from the Russian yoke.