nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqvvy080prj03n8up9muxceulja68xmnuzf5y7v2zapykxgxhvvcgql0t26u As for the #Moldova “$700 million dollars” to #Gazprom, large part of this “debt” has been accumulated by the following scheme:

Russia says PMR (Transnistria) is an “independent republic”

So Russia supplies gas to PMR

But PMR never pays for the gas

So Russia says PMR is part of Moldova, so Moldova should pay for the gas

The did exactly the same thing with Donbas and Ukraine after 2014. The whole scheme is of course based on a contradictory and absurd double recognition of these territories as “independent” and “legally controlled by Ukraine” at the same time, exclusively for the sake of this extortion. But from Western perspective nobody understood this and nobody cared, people here just can’t believe a country as big as #Russia can run such as scam on such a scale.