🇲🇩🤝🌐 Politico | When asked about potential NATO accession, Moldova’s President Maia Sandu said in an interview with POLITICO the country was still weighing its next step, and whether it would require a constitutional change to do so.

“Now, there is a serious discussion … about our capacity to defend ourselves, whether we can do it ourselves, or whether we should be part of a larger alliance,” she said. “And if we come, at some point, to the conclusion as a nation that we need to change neutrality, this should happen through a democratic process.”

In her response, Sandu was careful not to name-check NATO, anathema to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is already trying to destabilize Moldova’s pro-EU government. Russia has warned against further military cooperation between Moldova and Western allies.

Although Moldova is not a member of NATO, it does cooperate with the organization and contributes to the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo.

Sandu, along with other leaders, met with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in New York during the United Nations General Assembly in September last year. Moldova’s foreign minister, Nicu Popescu, attended December’s NATO meeting in Bucharest — the first time a Moldovan foreign minister has participated in a NATO ministerial. At that gathering, allies reconfirmed support for Moldova, including through the provision of training for Moldovan defense forces. Neighboring NATO member Romania is also particularly keen to increase military co-operation.

“Moldova is a peaceful country. It’s not Moldova that started a war against its neighbors,” she said. “Russian propaganda managed to convince part of the population that neutrality means you don’t have to invest in your defense sector, that neutrality means you do nothing and you have no capacity to defend yourself, which is wrong.”

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🇺🇸 Illinois gun control law slapped with restraining order by judge just days after it goes into effect

An Illinois judge temporarily blocked Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker from enforcing a newly enacted ban on certain semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines.

Effingham County Judge Joshua Morrison slapped the gun control law with a temporary restraining order after former Republican candidate for attorney general Tom DeVore sued to block the law. DeVore said in a press release that he's representing citizens from 87 Illinois counties who are challenging the law, which he called, "an outright attack on the constitutional rights of lawful gun owners across the state."

Pritzker said he was not surprised by the decision and accused the plaintiffs of advancing "ideology over public safety" in seeking to have the law struck down.

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@PatriotFrontSightings » PBS News Hour features Patriot Front in video titled "Drag queen events are increasingly targeted by right-wing demonstrators".

In the news segment the homosexual advocacy group "GLAAD" deliberately mischaracterizes First Amendment protected protests as "attacks". The amorality of the "drag" events is indefensible, so perpetrators aim to make public protest illegal.

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@PatriotFrontSightings » Patriot Front activists spotted flyering at March for Life in Washington, District of Columbia.

https://archive.ph/KVAIo

BREAKING: Anti-White terrorist just lit a cop car on fire in Atlanta.