Obama: Ignoring Russian Aggression Would Have Global Consequences

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I really don't get the NATO desire to bring up Moldova.
PMR is already de facto independent, so accession to Russia doesn't change much from Chisinau's perspective.
Moldova "proper" currently has a somewhat larger plurality favoring joining the Eurasian Union, compared to the EU, with the current pro-EU government even less popular. And that is not counting any citizens in PMR. Were PMR to be liquidated and returned to the body politic of Moldova (Chisinau's stance), then you pretty much have a pro-Eurasian Union majority guaranteed. If Chisinau wants to join EU and/or Romania, it needs to not only allow PMR to leave, but also allow Gagauzia to leave (and to be consensual and stable, do so in a geographically contiguous form*, albeit not necessarily original Gagauz claims in 1990-94) in order to achieve a stable pro-EU population base (which would still retain plenty of pro-Russian citizens of various ethnicities). It would make sense for Gagauzia and PMR to then join either a neutral Ukraine with good ties to Russia or perhaps more ideally for them, a Novo Rossiyan state with good ties to Russia, in both cases solidifying pro-Russian sentiment of the state they join. Or if Moldova as a whole seeks to join Eurasian Union, that along with some Constitutional reforms protecting PMR and Gagauzia woud seem to make a unified Moldova acceptable to those groups as well. Seems pretty simple, what other viable, stable solution is there?

* Namey, with a more liberal definition of areas eligible to secede, not depending solely on ethnic Gagauz majority, but on political support for secession, which will draw on ethnic Bulgar, Russian, and Ukrainians, as well as allowing reasonable compromises for territorial contiguity (with Gagauzia and/or Odessa oblast).