It occurs to me often that many readers wonder about my interest in Moldova, and find it esoteric at best, or bizarre at worst. It also occurs to me that I have not emphasized why Moldova matters.
So it's nice to see the WaPo put it on the front page. It's a pretty good story about Alazan missiles, which are smaller than a golf bag, that have gone missing from Transnistria. Oh, and by the way, many of them are equipped with dirty warheads. There's always a chance that the dirty bombs are missing because we've rounded them up, but that seems highly unlikely.
The scariest thing, though, is not the Alazans. Dirty bombs are a real problem, but there are credible reports that actual fissile material is available for sale in Transnistria. If the Administration needs help, I'm available.
What kind of a world is it where we have a President spending hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives looking for Botox in Iraq, but a junior level staffer at a think tank could point right to dirty bombs and fissile material available for sale to our enemies?
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