Moldovans
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Oct 9, 2026
JeffHOST
I got to say, he is the most dangerous person in the world right now.
JeffHOST
By the way, it wasn't an Islamist, it wasn't Moldavi, or it wasn't another Muslim who just invited Iran to blow up Los Angeles and San Diego.
JeffHOST
It was Donald Trump, okay? He just invited Iran to basically exterminate at least 13 million people because that's the combined number of population of those two cities.
JeffHOST
He's the president of the United States.
Emmet SavageHOST
I bet you if I went through that list of countries, there'd be some, like, Transnistria in there, and I'd be like, "Well, hold on a minute.
Emmet SavageHOST
That's, that the other side of the river in Moldova, that's not a country." The, the Moldovans regard that as theirs.
Emmet SavageHOST
But you go talk to a Transnistrian and they'd be like, "No, shag off.
Emmet SavageHOST
We're not part of them." So I don't know, is there 190 countries? But there's loads of countries, and I believe over the next decade, um, whatever share of the world's, uh, screen time moves to streaming, Netflix will be the first to collect it.
GavinHOST
Going on, yeah.
Joe BarnesGUEST
So the Moldovans took a huge amount of inspiration from the unification of Germany in 1990, and started agitating for similar things with Romania, and I mean, there's a few reasons it didn't quite happen.
Joe BarnesGUEST
One, it was a far more divided society.
Joe BarnesGUEST
There's still a debate even amongst ethnic Moldovans about what language they speak in Moldova.
Joe BarnesGUEST
Do they speak Moldovan-
GavinHOST
[laughs] Yes
Joe BarnesGUEST
It's incredible how these elections get hijacked like that.
Joe BarnesGUEST
But yeah, Mo- Moldova...
Andrea ChalupaHOST
Let me just put it to you this way.
Andrea ChalupaHOST
Why is it that hundreds of thousands of Russians over the years have fled Putin's Russia for a better life in the West, yet don't get involved in anti-war efforts and instead choose to keep their heads down and enjoy their lives instead of joining in the fight to stop their fascist oligarchy? We have amazing groups led by Ukrainians, Georgians, Moldovans, Romanians, Poles, and on the list goes, of people un- and Syrians, united in the fight against Russian fascism.
Andrea ChalupaHOST
And yes, the, there have been extraordinarily heroic Russian opposition leaders, including some that were just targeted here on US soil by the Kremlin for assassination, as we've covered on this show.
Andrea ChalupaHOST
But the, but they're not getting the support of their fellow countrymen and women.
speaker_2HOST
The melody has its own travel itinerary, and it needed no passport.
speaker_2HOST
In the 1880s, Shmuel Cohen, a Jewish immigrant from Bessarabia living in Rishon Lezion, fitted Imber's words to a tune he remembered from a Moldavian or Romanian folk song.
speaker_2HOST
That tune belongs to a musical family heard across Europe.
speaker_2HOST
Its famous classical cousin appears in Bejishk Smetana's symphonic poem Voltava, commonly called the Moldau from Mavlast.
Adam ReichardtHOST
But we're seeing more and more reports of not just drones in Moldovan airspace, but now actually crashing and exploding somewhere in Moldova.
Adam ReichardtHOST
What's the mood like now in the country in terms of the escalation that we see in Ukraine from the Russian side? How do Moldovans see it? Is there fear that this is going to spill over into Moldova and could have some sort of impact? I mean, not to mention the fact that there are Russian troops in the country in Transnistria, right? So how do Moldovans feel right now in terms of this security situation? Yeah.
David SmithGUEST
It is amazing what you can get used to.
David SmithGUEST
I think that, you know, Moldova's felt under great threat in the security terms since 2022, but it has shifted.
Joe PattiHOST
Yeah, Antonia, I'm gonna be honest, I can't point out Moldova on a map.
Joe PattiHOST
Sorry, Moldovans.
Joe PattiHOST
Except if I had to guess, I would guess it's probably next to Romania based on what you're saying.
Joe PattiHOST
[laughs]
Antonia-Laura PupGUEST
Yes, and, uh, it's very interesting.
Antonia-Laura PupGUEST
Not a lot of people know, but, um, most Moldovans have Romanian citizenship too.
Antonia-Laura PupGUEST
So Moldova used to be part of, uh, Romania until 1940s, and then it was annexed by the USSR.
Antonia-Laura PupGUEST
Um, and now-
Jimmy SeibertGUEST
There's a precious family in our church, and they're back in our church.
Jimmy SeibertGUEST
The Moldovans are their names, and they had been in life group or small groups, table groups, house church, whatever you call it, the gathering of house to house.
Jimmy SeibertGUEST
And they had had a powerful experience.
Jimmy SeibertGUEST
They had gotten set free from a lot of brokenness in their life.
Hannah MaguireHOST
Let's get back to it, and let's get back to the start, which is the start of the 15th century, where the country we now know as Romania was actually three informal principalities: Moldavia, Wallachia, and the most famous, Transylvania.
Hannah MaguireHOST
And, uh, the Moldavians, the Wallachians, and the Transylvanians all had a pretty rough time defending their land.
Hannah MaguireHOST
They were stuck slap bang in between Christian Europe and the Muslim Ottoman Empire, and they just couldn't catch a break.
Hannah MaguireHOST
These were sites of endless power struggles and ideological clashes and plenty of bloodshed.
JimmyHOST
In May 1476, a Genoese traveler named Antonio Bonfiglio, living in Pera across the water from Constantinople, wrote home with a strange piece of news.
JimmyHOST
A Moldavian ambassador had arrived to negotiate peace with the sultan, and one of his conditions was the release of a prisoner.
JimmyHOST
He was the lord of a mountain city-state called Theodoro, a relative of the Moldavian ruler, along with the other lords of the city.
JimmyHOST
According to Bonfiglio, those men were already gone for nearly a millennium.
JimmyHOST
The sultan's people told the ambassador they were alive and in prison, then walked him out to the outer jails and showed him other captives, passing them off as the men he'd asked for.
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JimmyHOST
Maria's brother Isaac ruled in Theodoro, and Isaac had reportedly been trying to buy safety by making his peace with the sultan.
JimmyHOST
Stephen didn't like that, and he had a second brother-in-law on hand, Alexander, who'd followed Maria to Moldavia in 1472.
JimmyHOST
The Moldavian prince decided to send him back to Crimea with three hundred soldiers, and Alexander quickly deposed his elder brother Isaac.
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