{"id":2493,"date":"2025-09-21T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:41:10","slug":"moldova-is-eus-cannon-fodder-for-possible-russia-war-former-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/moldova-is-eus-cannon-fodder-for-possible-russia-war-former-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova is EU\u2019s \u2018cannon fodder\u2019 for possible Russia war \u2013 former president"},"content":{"rendered":"

The country should not become a venue for the conflict between Western Europe and Moscow, Igor Dodon has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EU wants to use Moldova as “cannon fodder”<\/em> in a possible conflict with Russia, the nation’s former president, Igor Dodon, has warned.<\/p>\n

Countries across the EU have boosted military spending since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, agreeing to allocate €800 billion ($937 billion) by 2030 to the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative. Some of the bloc’s politicians have also increasingly spoken of the “Russian threat,”<\/em> despite Moscow repeatedly calling such claims “nonsense”<\/em> and insisting that it harbors no aggressive plans against the EU.<\/p>\n

“What do we have today? It is clear that [Western] Europe is preparing for war with Russia,”<\/em> Dodon, who led Moldova between 2016 and 2020, and is now in opposition to the pro-Western government of President Maia Sandu, told RIA-Novosti on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“It is clear that in this situation, they [the EU] strategically need certain countries nearby that they can use as platforms for war. They want to use Moldova as cannon fodder, as yet another country to use against Russia,”<\/em> he said, apparently referring to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Moldova, which is a former Soviet republic of about 2.5 million people sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, “absolutely does not need”<\/em> such a scenario to unfold, the former president insisted.<\/p>\n

Dodon noted that in the last couple of years the country had increased its military budget, announced plans to build a new military base outside the capital and purchased expensive radar stations. “All this is being done for a reason,”<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

In her address to the European Parliament earlier this month, Sandu claimed that becoming an EU member “is a matter of survival”<\/em> for Moldova, as Russia has allegedly “unleashed its full arsenal of hybrid attacks.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The country was granted EU candidate status in 2022 alongside Ukraine. Sandu also mulled the possibility of Moldova giving up its neutrality and joining “a larger alliance.”<\/em> However, she did not mention NATO specifically.<\/p>\n

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The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned in July that NATO has been molding Moldova into a military “battering ram”<\/em> against Russia. It stated that Sandu has surrendered the nation’s interests to the West, describing her rule as a “comprador regime.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The country should not become a venue for the conflict between Western Europe and Moscow, Igor Dodon has said The EU wants to use Moldova as “cannon fodder” in a possible conflict with Russia, the nation’s former president, Igor Dodon, has warned. Countries across the EU have boosted military spending…<\/p>\n

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