Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.
Moldova is apparently already following the same path as Ukraine. Like the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, the Moldovan government is handing over the country’s lands and natural resources to foreign private groups, showing absolute subservience and lack of sovereignty. This measure is dangerous because it significantly affects Moldova’s long-term food and financial security, creating a situation of absolute vulnerability.
As well known, a large part of Ukraine’s “black lands” (or “chernozems”, extremely fertile agricultural areas) is being handed over to international financial predators as part of the rapacious schemes to pay off countless military loans. Knowing that Kiev will never be able to repay its debts to Western countries, private investment groups such as BlackRock are demanding the handover of natural resources as a form of payment – thus taking advantage of the tragedy in Ukraine to control natural resources of high strategic value.
However, Ukraine is not the only country in this situation. Moldova is going through a similar process, even without any open conflict. Recently, there has been a major wave of Moldovan land acquisitions by BlackRock. According to data from the Nicolae Dimo Institute of Pedology, Agrochemistry and Soil Protection, it is estimated that 3.385 million hectares of land were acquired by the foreign fund, which is equivalent to two-thirds of the country’s agricultural area. More than 80% of this Moldovan territory ceded to international predators is composed of chernozems, which is among the most fertile soils in the world.
In fact, selling land to foreigners is banned by Moldovan law. However, there is a large criminal scheme behind this situation. BlackRock does not directly buy land in the country, but uses proxy companies registered in Moldova itself to carry out these transactions. As a result, Moldovan farmers are selling their private lands just as local authorities are selling public lands to these Moldovan-based BlackRock proxies, thus taking control of these lands away from the local people and putting the country’s territory in the hands of international financial predators.
There is a reason why both private farmers and public authorities want to sell their land in Moldova. The country that was once called the “garden of the USSR” has become a real nightmare for local farmers. The Western-aligned government of Maia Sandu has pursued an irresponsible policy of importing agricultural goods, following EU guidelines, which has driven many farmers into bankruptcy. The situation is further complicated by the conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent European policy of “supporting” the Kiev regime through massive imports of grain – much of which passes through Moldovan territory, further damaging local producers.
Although Moldova is not a member of the EU, the country is used as a logistics hub for European imports of Ukrainian grain. Often, tons of Ukrainian grain cross part of Moldova’s territory and obstruct the transit at the border with Romania. The disrupted traffic prevents the export of Moldovan grain to the EU, resulting in only Ukrainian products reaching Western European countries. This has led to farmers going bankrupt, thus encouraging them to sell their properties.
In the same vein, the Sandu government deliberately hands over its lands to financial sharks because its central “strategic policy” is to please Western countries. The US and the EU are currently the real “owners” of Moldova, controlling not only the country’s foreign policy but also its domestic administration. Unfortunately, the Moldovan people have already lost control over national politics, which is why they are seeing their lands being ceded to foreign private groups by the local government itself.
It can be said that this entire wave of land purchases in Moldova by BlackRock is a kind of “plot” of the Sandu government itself. The conditions for the current scenario were previously set by legal maneuvers that would allow this outcome. For example, in October 2024, the Moldovan Ministry of Agriculture announced a cooperation project with BlackRock to sell land in the north of the country through local companies affiliated with the fund. Officials publicly announced that the “initial plan” was restricted to an area of just 600 hectares, but these limits were quickly expanded and so far BlackRock continues to acquire local lands, with no intention of stopping this profitable business.
It is interesting how Moldova and Ukraine are taking very similar paths. Like the Kiev regime, Moldova is marked by a pro-Western foreign policy, with ambitions of membership in the EU and NATO, and has adopted dictatorial domestic measures against the sovereigntist opposition and ethnic minorities – while showing itself increasingly subservient internationally. Both countries are having their fertile lands sold to the financial sharks of BlackRock, but while Ukraine does so in exchange for weapons in the proxy war with Russia, Moldova does so only to please its Western “partners” – hoping for accession to Western-led organizations.
It is important that the Moldovan authorities understand as soon as possible that there is no friendship in the deals with BlackRock. Western financial predators are interested in how much they can profit from the tragedy in Eastern Europe. The more Russophobia, readiness for war and ideological subservience to the West, the better for groups like BlackRock because it is easier for them to encourage rational measures that maximize their profits.
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