I laughed out loud several times reading this, but you can't help but pity those poor Moldovans now one step closer to being suffocated entirely by the stupid EU. As if things weren't bad enough there already.
Good analysis. One addition here is how logistics, not persuasion, likely swung the margin. If you audit the infrastructure of voting such as the number and placement of foreign polling stations, hours, ID rules, etc., you will probably find a massive disparity between EU countries (dense, convenient sites) and Russia/Transnistria (few, distant, last-minute changes). A simple metric like votes per polling station abroad or median travel distance to a station would quantify turnout engineering and explain how 50.2% was manufactured. Layer on EU conditionality that will push Energy Community/ETS-lite alignment and CBAM spillovers, raising power and heating costs in a country already hemorrhaging people. That’s a recipe for post-accession buyer’s remorse, not durable consent.
I recall many years ago where Jimmy Carter and various organizations would show up at Eastern European elections to declare them free and fair. Has a similar declaration been made here? That would seem to permanently tank their credibility.
One of the pro-Russians on Twitter suggested that Moldovans would be drafted as into the Ukrainian meat grinder. Interested thought, although I doubt they are nationalistic and organized enough to pull it off.
This is interesting as a potential dry run for new forms of cheating in Western Europe. Something Reform and other populist parties to factor into their calculations.
Your essay on Moldova carries the fire of polemic, and it succeeds in tearing the mask off the ritual language of “democracy” that Western institutions drape over power. What stands out is not only the detail but the recognition of a pattern: the playbook of interference repeated until it becomes almost banal. In that sense, your work is a necessary counterweight to the official story.
At the same time, I wonder if in cutting through the lies of Brussels you sometimes strip too much from Moldova itself. The country is not merely a pawn or a “fake battleground” invented by others - it is also a small nation wrestling with the gravity of history: borderlands that never chose to be borderlands, a people fractured by empire, diaspora, and poverty. By dismissing its strategic value outright, you may flatten the very complexity that makes Moldova instructive.
I wrote yesterday an article where Benjamin Franklin warned that republics end in despotism when people grow dependent. In Moldova, dependency runs in every direction - East and West, Moscow and Brussels, diaspora remittances and NGO stipends. That is the deeper tragedy: not only interference from without, but also erosion from within. Your sharp skepticism unmasks the hypocrisy of Europe, but the harder question may be what remains for Moldova itself, caught between gravity and collapse.
The current Moldovan "president" has Romanian (NATO) citizenship and worked for the World Bank, enough said. The World Bank "ex" employees are ALWAYS double agents for the globalists (Imperialists)
I laughed out loud several times reading this, but you can't help but pity those poor Moldovans now one step closer to being suffocated entirely by the stupid EU. As if things weren't bad enough there already.
Thanks, yeah I feel really bad for the ones who intend to stay and will have to deal with this bullshit
Good analysis. One addition here is how logistics, not persuasion, likely swung the margin. If you audit the infrastructure of voting such as the number and placement of foreign polling stations, hours, ID rules, etc., you will probably find a massive disparity between EU countries (dense, convenient sites) and Russia/Transnistria (few, distant, last-minute changes). A simple metric like votes per polling station abroad or median travel distance to a station would quantify turnout engineering and explain how 50.2% was manufactured. Layer on EU conditionality that will push Energy Community/ETS-lite alignment and CBAM spillovers, raising power and heating costs in a country already hemorrhaging people. That’s a recipe for post-accession buyer’s remorse, not durable consent.
I recall many years ago where Jimmy Carter and various organizations would show up at Eastern European elections to declare them free and fair. Has a similar declaration been made here? That would seem to permanently tank their credibility.
One of the pro-Russians on Twitter suggested that Moldovans would be drafted as into the Ukrainian meat grinder. Interested thought, although I doubt they are nationalistic and organized enough to pull it off.
This is interesting as a potential dry run for new forms of cheating in Western Europe. Something Reform and other populist parties to factor into their calculations.
Your essay on Moldova carries the fire of polemic, and it succeeds in tearing the mask off the ritual language of “democracy” that Western institutions drape over power. What stands out is not only the detail but the recognition of a pattern: the playbook of interference repeated until it becomes almost banal. In that sense, your work is a necessary counterweight to the official story.
At the same time, I wonder if in cutting through the lies of Brussels you sometimes strip too much from Moldova itself. The country is not merely a pawn or a “fake battleground” invented by others - it is also a small nation wrestling with the gravity of history: borderlands that never chose to be borderlands, a people fractured by empire, diaspora, and poverty. By dismissing its strategic value outright, you may flatten the very complexity that makes Moldova instructive.
I wrote yesterday an article where Benjamin Franklin warned that republics end in despotism when people grow dependent. In Moldova, dependency runs in every direction - East and West, Moscow and Brussels, diaspora remittances and NGO stipends. That is the deeper tragedy: not only interference from without, but also erosion from within. Your sharp skepticism unmasks the hypocrisy of Europe, but the harder question may be what remains for Moldova itself, caught between gravity and collapse.
yes I certainly am somewhat guilty of that here but as I said I am quite sure the EU voters themselves have given up on the country
The current Moldovan "president" has Romanian (NATO) citizenship and worked for the World Bank, enough said. The World Bank "ex" employees are ALWAYS double agents for the globalists (Imperialists)
So true! Congratulations!
Final! Superb essay, thank you!