RomCom1989

You tell me that Russia will willingly take over Lviv and I'll tell you I have a bridge in Crimea to sell you

Edit: Nevermind,re read the comment

Still,I can't fathom a world where Russia does Afghanistan 2 Wheat Field Boogaloo no matter how much Ukraine kills itself

If Ukraine is ever in the position of having fucking core Ruthenia be annexed it would have collapsed already

Aaa,nu e problema,lol,am zis ca nu pun la inima,stai linistit,voiam doar sa clarific

Nu vreau sa fiu rautacios,dar era in romana

Oricum,nu am pus la inima,deci nu e problema,apreciez raspunsul

Admir dedicatia pentru duma

Beautifully put

I believe this goes even further in the case of Balkan and Southern Eastern European nations,you can see my comment in reply to commrade Redcuban1959 (I don't know how to link it)

Oh,I almost forgot

I would like to explain my "Russia or Romania" stance

You are correct,I do believe many countries in the world today should not exist,either because they are colonial constructs or because they just aren't viable as states

Basically,let's take for example the Caribbean islands

There are many nations there,but they basically exist as puppets of the US,sans Cuba, wouldn't it make more sense for them to unite into a federation to be able to become stronger together and combat US influence? The other example I have in my mind is Nasser's UAR. To me it just makes more sense for countries to band together into larger entities to combat US influence. You have made a valuable point when you pointed out that as it stands,it would be more like an annexation of Moldova than a true unification. But I personally do think that the European microstates shouldn't exist,not should the Gulf States,or Singapore,with the latter two being products of colonialism and the other ones pointless anachronisms.

Btw should I delete my post then? Or just redirect to yours instead? I'm looking back and I said some real stupid shit,out here sounding like the average Eastern European NAFOid

Ar fi foarte ironic sa las un comentariu in engleza care sa fie de acord cu aceasta propunere. Dar nu o sa o fac,teehee

Fair,I could see the US tossing the Bugeac away to Moldova

I will concede that my wording is crude and my opinions maximalist

Basically I'd ideally want something like the Union State with Moldova

I'm thinking now that my insistence on unification is the result of impulsiveness and not thinking through about my replies

I agree with your sentiment,and I'm gonna say that my support basically boils down to passively saying that if it were to happen I wouldn't complain,just as I wouldn't complain if Moldova didn't join the EU,but you are right,I'm looking over my wording and it worryingly sounds like Simion or god forbid Ferdinand the first

Also I would like to put a disclaimer,these were personal opinions and should in no way be treated as fact, please do not adopt a pro west stance on this issue as a result of my posts,I was just throwing my opinion out there to see what people would think,I am very much fallible and even though I'm form the region,that doesn't mean I am an unbiased source of information

I appreciate the educational rebuttals offered and I would advise people to look at both perspectives but give more credence to the ones who utilized actual historical sources,which wasn't mine

Interesting point you made on joking about local politics

See,here this is like a national past time,and it frequently devolves into what you said. You may ask why that is. My theory is that this culture was more or less created during communism and arose out of initially justifiable misgivings maybe mixed with fascist lost causers that weren't gulaged. It became a useful tool for the US and CIA,a vector through which to spread pro capitalist thought,see Reagan and his Soviet jokes.

Now,after they succeeded in destroying socialism here,the remnants of that have coalesced into a sort of national inferiority complex built on the basis of even older sentiments during the times of national liberation,where eastern European revolutionaries were educated in Paris or Vienna and tried transplanting liberal ideas into post ottoman principalities.

In Romania,we had a writer,Caragiale, which frequently satirized the decisions of the "form without foundation" policies of the newly formed Kingdom of Romania which transplanted liberal institutions wholesale without actually creating a material basis for any capitalist development, seeing as the country was mostly agrarian and most of the land was owned by the church.

Also, he frequently made fun of the then francophilia of the newly forming bourgeois,the "new money", fighting with the landed nobility,the boyars,which were more accustomed to Turkish influence.

Edit:To go even farther,I think it's also an even more deeper shame of being conquered by a Muslim nation,and being forced to bend the knee to them,and pay jizya and also have kids kidnapped to become janissaries who would go on to fight against you.

That would mean taking territory from Ukraine,also Pridniestrovie was never a part of that, seeing as it's on the other side of the Dniester