tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post5474168190190642708..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Moldova, a potential hot spotUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-22517741526410056342013-05-24T04:48:31.199+02:002013-05-24T04:48:31.199+02:00Romanian here, from Iasi (19 km away from the bord...Romanian here, from Iasi (19 km away from the border with Moldova). I now live in the U.S. but I keep close ties with home.<br /><br />The nationalistic fervor in both Romania and Moldova was very high in the early 90's, but it has died down practically completely. During the 2009 Moldovan unrest I was actually traveling through Romania, from Bucharest to Iasi, aboard a small bus. Romanians are talkative and we talked about many things, and the topic of Moldova only came up for 10 minutes, 4 hours into the trip. The general attitude seems to be that "we have enough problems now; the last things we need are a few more million poor, a true Mafia, a sizeable Russian minority, and a pissed-off Russia. West Germany could afford in 1990 to integrate East Germany. Romania can barely afford to integrate itself into the E.U., and it knows it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com