The stupidity I’m referring to is mine. In July 2015 I visited Moldova, a small, picturesque, impoverished country wedged between Romania, which is part of the European Union, and the breakaway region of Transnistria, which borders Ukraine and is mostly pro-Russian. My purpose was to observe the ground-level operations of Radio Free Europe, and I met some terrific people. But I also misconstrued much of what I was seeing, because it didn’t fit with my preconceived idea of the biggest challenge facing this and other former Soviet republics.I did manage to avoid the obvious stupidity of Westerners who, in the …read more
Source: The American Interest
