As Transdniestria becomes more and more convinced that Kosovo is indeed a precedent, some in Moldovan and their supporters are trying to turn back the tide of history by suggesting that Kosovo’s road to U.S.-recognized independence can only be a precedent if it is studiously carbon-copied millimeter by millimeter. This includes dismantling the otherwise successful state and forcing it under U.N. (UNMIK-style) administration for nearly a decade prior to independence. And it includes some 16,000 NATO troops on the ground, too.

Vladimir Socor, a propagandist working for a Dick Cheney related neocon outfit, has made it clear that the Kosovo precedent for Transdniestria is only valid if Transdniestria gets the whole “NATO treatment”; troops and all.

Socor is a neocon nutter with the most wild-eyed anti PMR bias this side of Oazu Nantoi (and that says a lot). The son of the Romanian dictatorship’s top propaganda boss, Vlad Socor now works for the CIA-endorsed Jamestown Foundation where he is beating the war drums and sees red whenever he hears the word “Russia”.

The latest victim to succumb to his “all or nothing” precedent spiel is Nicu Popescu, a Moldovan of course, who breathlessly fantasizes about “guver­nata de UE sau ONU timp de 8-10 ani.”
Now, what would happen if the government of the PMR actually took these Cold War hawkers seriously and let NATO troops, EU troops or UN troops run loose inside its borders? Would the people of Transdniestria be better off? Or worse?
Here’s a hint, from a video made by actual NATO soldiers on duty in Kosovo. They themselves filmed this clip on the ground in the barren, war-torn wasteland:

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