Transdniestria prevents NATO expansion
Transdniestria has great value as an "irritant to the US and the EU", said one Western official (quoted in The Sunday Telegraph, London, 12 May 2007).
A US State Department official recently identified it as one of the worst thorns in the side of Europe and NATO (Source: The Sunday Telegraph, 12 May 2007).
As a result, the United States is doing everything it can to prevent Transdniestria's independence. This includes the usual scare tactics and mis-information: On May 2, 2007, the US State Departement announced that “if Transdniester officially becomes independent of Moldova, it could become a potential area for terrorist recruitment."
Moldova wants to join the EU and NATO, but the unresolved status of Transdniestria prevents it from doing so. Transdniestria will never join the EU or NATO.
NATO expansion and economic starvation of Transdniestria
The United States wants to expand the economic blockade of Transdniestria worldwide.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Pamela Hyde Smith recently told the NATO-expansionist Atlantic Council that "a solution to Transnistria will require [...] freezing illegal Transnistrian trade and assets globally."