Translation: It is time! The tricolor on the mast (dude has been a ship captain his whole life).
September 28th 2025 will be the day when a small country like the Republic of Moldova will provide a serious defeat to Vladimir Putin and his subjects from Kremlin.
See you again well on September 29th when the pro-europeans will continue to govern for their country and their people.

  • randomname@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    101·
    7 hours ago

    @plyth@feddit.org

    • Massive disinformation campaigns by Russia worth billions of euros
    • Bomb threats even in European countries at polling stations trying to intimidate the Moldovan diaspora
    • Vote buying attempts (Ilan Shor, an pro-Russian oligarch living in exile after he was convicted in absentia for his role in stealing $1 billion from Moldovan banks in 2014, posted a video to his Telegram channel offering to pay voters the equivalent of $28 if they registered with his campaign, and just to name an example
    • Pro-Russian groups who train propagandists by giving them precise instructions and narratives to be shared particularly on TikTok (and, yes, they pay their their propagandists) to manipulate algorithms on social media
    • Sowing confusion among voters by promoting nominally pro-EU candidates and parties who many suspect of harboring ties with Russia (Irina Vlah, a member of parliament for the Heart of Moldova party, part of the Patriotic Bloc, has dampened her pro-Russian rhetoric portraying her pro-EU stance, while she has been sanctioned by Canada “in relation to Russia’s malign interference activities in Moldova")

    These are just a few examples of Russian interference in Moldova’s elections. Comparing this to a single social media post made by a politician who is openly showing his pro-EU stance is outright insane. It discredits you completely.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      19·
      6 hours ago

      You have a solid case, which extensively lists problematic interference. Why not rely on the facts alone but also use insults?

      Edit: Downvoters, it’s ironic to blame Russia for interference in a post that celebrates European interference. It becomes suspicious if that cannot be mentioned openly.

      Now calling me insane for pointing out something that is true doesn’t make sense. I have made it clear that the interferences are not the same. It would be insane to equate them, but not to mention that both are interferences.

      • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        4·
        4 hours ago

        but not to mention that both are interferences.

        It is, of course, not interference if a politician (or any ‘ordinary’ person) expresses an opinion. In this case, he openly opposed an elections interference by a fascist authoritarian government by apparently saying the he himself supports a democratic future of Moldova. Your comparison is indeed out of touch. @plyth@feddit.org