you think it is based that instead of going > let's eradicate corruption and create a competitive zone free of local oligarch clans that can act as an economic hub for eastern europe and outcompete other powers they went > no! we need to centralize even more, defederalize even more, the issue of ussr was that it stopped being stalinist the last part is the literal thought process of putin if you've ever looked into his opinion about ussr btw. down the line in centuries shizophrenic revanchism hyper centralization will never ever lead to something good. at the end of our lives if we meet we will see who was right. russia doesn't need to act like a shizo to compete as a global power.
Moldova