The "wrong" people seem to have won, or at least to have done better than "expected", in Moldova, so of course it must be down to "Russian interference". The place may as well already be in the EU.
As for Yulia Navalnaya, no one much in Russia had ever heard of her husband before, albeit under prison camp conditions, he dropped dead of natural causes as we fortysomethings sometimes do. It is we cockroaches that survive. Yet when Navalnaya, of whom no one at all has ever heard, did not win the Russian Presidency, then the tedious cry will be that the election had been rigged. It very possibly will have been. But not against her. Still, she will be proclaimed the "rightful" President in the manner of Juan Guaidó, who as much as Alexei Navalny embodied, and in Guaidó's case continues to embody, the meaninglessness of the distinction between centrism and Fascism.
See also Maia Sandu, who has banned the display of the Saint George's Ribbon, being ever-loyal instead to the Iron Guard, therefore to the NATO that spends a fortune depicting such phenomena as the good guys of the Eastern Front, and thus also to the EU.
Thee Russian presidential election had a sort of liberal righty on the ballot and a racist ultra-nationalist, so not one Navalny type candidate but two. They came third and fourth with 3.90% and 3.24%. It was rigged but not by that much. The second placed candidate was the Communist, why would the whiners have wanted him?
ReplyDeleteAnd those were Navalny-type candidates of whom anyone in Russia had ever heard. Unlike Navalny. They would have done better in a fair fight, but they would still have been nowhere near winning.
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