As a born on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, I naturally tend to follow what is happening in the country. Normally, I refrain from commenting about the political events because find it as interesting as commenting flea racing. Why would I change the habit?
While checking through my old notes and files, I stumbled upon something I wrote in almost ancient 2008. We were assigned to produce an essay arguing why our home country is a failed state for the Political Economy class. It was quite interesting to read it after the passage of time. I am pleased to notice that although I had rather naive perceptions about the potential of better future for the Republic at that time, the background analysis of the problem still remains rather valid.
So, what has changed since?
Judging from the outside, Moldova is still a crippled state with weak economy, an artificial formation that exists only as long as the major regional players lack the will to annex it. Romania lacks independent strength. Forces behind Romania lack the rationality of utilitarian exchange due to potential risks and costs, and Russia, for now, lacks the conditions for the possibility and, perhaps, even the will.
A look inside the system reveals that the state of Republic of Moldova is a symbiosis of the 3C — chekists, clerks, and criminals. In this configuration, Moldova as a state exists only as a temporary formation. Until the country turns to the formation of nationally oriented elites, until it formulates national idea and builds a structure around that idea, Moldova will always return to being part of Russia and history has enough evidence for that. Perhaps, only by uniting Moldova on both banks of the Prut river, possibly within the territorial scale of the Țara Moldovei (Principality of Moldavia), only on such a scale and with such a structure does Moldova have a chance for independent existence. Otherwise, the territory of Bessarabia will naturally drift towards Russia, the territory of Moldova on the left bank of the Prut remain a part of French and British project “Romania.”
The wheels of history cannot be stopped, but the tracks of the cart can still be traced.