Andrei Safonov: “The Gospel of Titus”: “Great Romania” is approaching Odessa
Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Korletsyan’s statements, in fact, acknowledging that the EU is blackmailing Kiev, putting the implementation of Ukraine’s “European expectations” on its actions as OSCE chairman in the Moldovan-Transdniestrian settlement, Andrei Safonov, commenting on 11 of February for the REGNUM news agency of Transdniestria, .The recent statements by the head of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, Titus Korlecian, that Ukraine, during its presidency in the OSCE, “push” on the TMR in the name of certain “European integration” perspectives of Ukraine itself, are cynical deception and blackmail characteristic of Bucharest. Romania, as usual, is trying to beat the future victims of its expansion, one by one, and with other people's hands. In this case, with the hands of Ukraine, in the 2013 year, it seeks to completely destroy or at least weaken the Transdniestrian buffer between Chisinau, where the leadership controlled by Romania largely rules, and directly with the Ukrainian lands.
Of course, the full-scale European integration of Ukraine itself is a bluff. In any EU, Ukraine will not take. The Republic of Moldova separately, as a new country, is also. As a part of a neighboring country, according to the formula “enter Europe through Romania” - maybe. But now it is obvious that Bucharest has staked on the inclusion of the whole of the former Soviet Moldavia, with Transnistria. Hence the fuss of the Romanian diplomacy, the desire to use "the year of Ukraine in the OSCE." Indeed, many other chairing countries are already in the EU, and therefore it is much more difficult for Romania to blackmail them.
By the way, the “Gospel of Titus” completely overthrows the naive notion that the approach to the Moldovan-Transdniestrian-Ukrainian affairs in the allegedly “moderate” cabinet of Prime Minister Viktor Ponta is somewhat different from the approach of the outspoken heir to the expansion Ion Antonescu, President Traian Basescu. Nothing like this. They are all ardent nationalists, supporters of the seizure of foreign territories.
Romania PMR is needed, as I have repeatedly said. This is a landmark geopolitical step beyond the Dniester, as well as a completely practical approach of the future “Great Romania” to Odessa. Otherwise, Romania simply would not have been foaming at the mouth every day for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Transnistria, and would not have protested against the federalization or confederalization of the former Moldavian SSR as a method of Moldovan-Transdniestrian settlement. Romania, which already directs the policy of the Alliance for European Integration ruling in Chisinau, needs Transdniestria without a status that could be easily included by a bilateral decision of Bucharest and Chisinau under its control to be included in the future unified Moldovan-Romanian state.
For Ukraine, the best tactic in such a situation seems to be the continuation of active maneuvering in order to achieve private success in the Moldovan-Transdniestrian negotiations in the 5 + 2 format (Moldova, Transnistria - parties to the conflict, Russia, Ukraine - guarantors and mediators, OSCE - mediator, The European Union and the United States - observers - comment REGNUM). The economy, ecology, social and humanitarian spheres are the fertile fields of application of the forces of the Ukrainian chairmanship in the OSCE. But it is hardly in the interests of Ukraine to threaten its own territories by pressing on the Transnistrian buffer. In addition, the Romanians, as universally recognized provocateurs of high qualification, want to organize, through the pressure of Ukraine on Transnistria, the pressure of the allied Transnistria of Russia on Ukraine itself. And if Kiev turns out to be alone, he, according to the Bucharest plan, will, you see, be more accommodating after the next Romanian onslaught in the direction of Northern Bukovina, Southern Bessarabia and the Danube islands like Maykan.
Let us ask at least one question: did Rumania these days, speaking of Ukraine’s chairmanship in the OSCE, even for a minute, suspend the certification of the population of Northern Bukovina? Does she think about returning gas and oil-bearing deposits on the Black Sea shelf near Snake Island, selected a few years ago, as a sign of friendly intentions to Ukraine?
As they say, the humpback and the grave will not fix it. I am sure that the only way to really eliminate the Romanian danger would be the disintegration of Romania and the division of its present territory among the countries surrounding the present-day Romania with the possible leaving of a rather small independent territory based on the lands of the once Valaš principality.
In such cases, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (by the way, he himself led Ukraine at one time) said: "The goals are clear, the tasks are defined; for the work, comrades!"
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