Moldova\u2019s new pro-NATO military doctrine is the cost of EU integration, former MP Marina Tauber has argued<\/p>\n
Moldova\u2019s new military doctrine is \u201ca manifesto rejecting peace, neutrality, and the future of our nation\u201d and priming it for a conflict with Russia, opposition politician and former lawmaker Marina Tauber has said.
\n\u201cJust a week after the election, Russia has officially been labeled a threat. The next phase is to draw our nation into a war,\u201d Tauber stated in an interview with Russia\u2019s TASS news agency published on Thursday.
\nShe further argued that Moldova\u2019s fragile economy cannot sustain militarization. \u201cWhile our elderly must choose between bread and medicine, our government buys armor and conducts drills with NATO. That is the real price of the so-called \u2018European choice,\u2019\u201d she said.
\nTauber accused President Maia Sandu\u2019s government of abandoning Moldova\u2019s constitutional neutrality in pursuit of EU membership.<\/p>\n
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Moldova\u2019s newly adopted military doctrine, unveiled on Wednesday, commits the country to boosting defense spending and aligning its forces with NATO standards over the next decade. The document brands the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway region of Transnistria as \u201ca flagrant violation of Moldova\u2019s sovereignty and neutrality,\u201d while insisting that closer cooperation with NATO does not violate the nation\u2019s constitutionally mandated neutral status.
\nTauber was forced to flee Moldova days before the parliamentary election in late September, as she was facing a criminal conviction on charges of financial misconduct that she insists were politically motivated.
\nCritics of Sandu, a Romanian citizen and outspoken advocate of EU integration, have accused her of using anti-Russian rhetoric to consolidate power. Several opposition candidates were barred from the ballot ahead of the vote \u2013 a move that the targeted politicians denounced as an abuse of power \u2013 allowing Sandu\u2019s Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) to secure a majority.
\nMoscow has criticized Moldova\u2019s foreign policy shift, accusing Sandu\u2019s administration of acting against national interests in favor of Western geopolitical goals. Russian officials have cited NATO\u2019s eastward expansion, including its promise to admit Ukraine as a member, as one of the key causes of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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