Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:41:46 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>

On 2/14/2025 1:26 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

A candidate nobody had ever heard of, who wanted to turn the whole
country over to Putin, suddenly appeared at the last minute and won the
election by an incredibly large majority.  Doesn't that sound suspicious
to you -  and worth putting the result on hold while the circumstances
were checked?

 
But, isn't that the norm for the Russian mindset?

>
These elections were in Romania, which is a European country on the
borders of Russia and is terrified that they will be in Putin's sights
after Ukraine.  The official line is that there was evidence of
'State-sponsored interference' in the elections, but it is obvious which
state is the most likely one.

 
Yeah, the usual bogie-man (we're supposed to automatically assume).
The bald fact is that there is not a single Western democracy you
could not claim has been unduly influenced by Russia: not one.

We're not talking about a few votes here and there, we are talking about
an unheard-of swing towards a virtually-unknown pro-Putin extremist
candidate in a country which has every reason to hate Putin.  This isn't
subtle influence, it is blatant interference and that is what the
Constitutional Court concluded after weighing up the evidence.


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