Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Pro-Russian separatists ask Moscow for protection in Moldova | DW News" video.

  1. ​ @Reticulated_Spline  there were ethnic cleanings against Serbs in all Yougoslav republics during the war, including Kosovo
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  2. ​ @xsc1000  Kosovo wanted to join Albania, to be annexed by Albania, Kosovan Albanians themselves consider their independence as temporary measure, but Albania was unable to annex them as Kosovo wanted for different reasons, there is no difference between Kosovo and Crimea
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  3. There was a war between Moldova and Transinistria in the 90s, but Ukrainian and Russian armies condicted a joint peacekeeping operation in 1993 in Russo-Ukrainian populated region of Moldova. The war was frosen, but OF COURSE Moldovan government consider this territory as its own despite the democratic will of the people who want to be independent from them. And I think Moldova wants to conduct something simillar to what Ukraine was trying to do - Ukraine knew that Russia is helping the separatists in the Donbass, and Ukraine wanted to join NATO or at least receive some defense guarantees from United States, in order to cut off Russian supplies to rebels in case of Ukrainian offensive on Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia knew this, and in 2021 there were negotiations between Russia and NATO, but negotiations failed, and Russia was forced by the United States to invade Ukraine, because Russia had no other options. Russia was trying to force Ukraine to negotiations, and in march 2022 there were negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istambul, Turkey. Russia wanted just neutral status of Ukraine and non-joining NATO, and Russia was even ready to give Ukraine all territory back, on the line of february 23rd 2022. Russia made a signature on this document, while Ukraine proposed Russia to "give a signal, that you are ready to respect the accords", and Russia withdrew its forces from Kyiv and Northern Ukraine in start of april 2022. But after Russia did this, Western leaders promised military and economical help to Ukraine, and Boris Johnson promised that Ukraine would take Crimea, so after Russian withdrawal from Northern Ukraine, which was a signal that Russia is ready to respect Istambul peace accords, Ukraine forgot about peace accords and negotiations, and later Russia made the annexations of 4 Ukrainian regions in order to mark that there would be no other chance for Ukraine to negotiate again. There we can clearly see, that Ukraine wanted to invade Russian separatists regions in the Donbass, but in order to achieve this Ukraine wanted to cut off Russian supplies to rebels by receiving defense guarantees from NATO or United States. What is interesting is that all countries of NATO consider Crimea as a Ukrainian territory, so even if Ukraine could have started an offensive war against Russian separatists and Crimea, NATO countries still could be forced to join the war by 5th NATO article. So Russia had no other choise but to force Ukraine to negotiations with using its army as a threat near Kyiv in march 2022, after negotiations between NATO and Russia failed in 2021. The same could happen with separatist region of Transinistria, but at now Russia is unable to help them with their defense against Moldovan army.
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  4.  @xsc1000  it wasn't Albania who started the war, but it wasn't Russia who started the war - Donbass separated from Ukraine and there was a war when Ukraine started military operation to recapture the region. Albania was just poor and weak to invade Serbia, so NATO did this job instead, calling it "peacekeeping operation", and Russia is conducting the same thing
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