Has anyone here written on the recent Romanian elections "scandal"?
My suspicions is that it's a less severe version of the Georgian case: someone who doesn't automatically bow to NATO & EU won an election, and liberals cry about Russian coup (without ample evidence)
Even if there is evidence, the rundown is usually: Russians giving money to a right wing candidate is BAD, end of democracy, while NED giving money to a different right wing candidate is just the power of Freeeedom
It's highly unlikely that TikTok alone would be enough to win an election, anyway
Um, Israel didn't "invade" Syria, their tanks just crossed the border into another country to secure a buffer zone
Only crazy putinist orcs invade other countries
My favourite mental gymnastics about this is that liberals think that FBI, CIA and US politicians are unbiased and trustworthy, but WHO and independent biologists are just China shills.
It's mindblowing how many libs are Wuhan-pilled after the show trial The Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
They believe everything if it says CHINA BAD, even if western scientists themselves don't believe the lab leak theory.
If you point this out, you are a Chinese bot, case closed.
The CIA greases and amplifies, sometimes organizes, but there are many people who honestly believe that the west is a force for capital G Good. They unironically believe that there is a rules based international order led by Western Europe and Washington.
US cultural hegemony is just that strong.
That's why any sane country would fight NED just as much as the actual CIA.
It's ridiculous how normalized it is among Eastern European liberals that liberal journalists get invited to US State Department programs. These same people would concoct the wildest kompromat conspiracy theories if a West-critical journo ever visited the Hermitage or the Great Wall on a vacation.
And that's why there was a ruckus about NGOs in Georgia.
Friendly reminder when talking to libs about Georgia:
even the EU thinks Georgia started the war against Russia
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"In the Mission's view, it was Georgia which triggered off the war when it attacked Tskhinvali (in South Ossetia) with heavy artillery on the night of 7 to 8 August 2008," said Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, who led the investigation.
The report said the war followed tensions and provocations by Russia, but Tagliavini said: "None of the explanations given by the Georgian authorities in order to provide some form of legal justification for the attack lend it a valid explanation."
Saakashvili had said Georgia was responding to an invasion by Russian forces when it attacked breakaway South Ossetia, but the report found no evidence of this.
It said Russia's counter-strike was initially legal, but its military response violated international law when Russian forces pushed into Georgia proper.
"Although it should be admitted that it is not easy to decide where the line must be drawn, it seems, however, that much of the Russian military action went far beyond the reasonable limits of defense," the report said.
I know we are used to it, but mainstream media sleight of hand always amazes me.
Consider this paragraph from a shitlib newspaper
For this reason, significant North Korean assistance has also been brought in. Beyond the shipments of artillery ammunition and ballistic missiles, it has been proven that North Korean combat troops are already present on the front lines and have even suffered losses. It is clear that the Russians have shifted to an "all-in" strategy, which is further facilitated by the repeated mistakes of the Ukrainian military leadership.
"proven"? Interesting... let's click on the link... global security . org. Wait a minute it's just Radio Free Asia? Did they purposefully use a different site, because people are catching onto the fact that RFA and RFE are just CIA propaganda rags?
But let's read this proof:
South Korea's National Intelligence Service, or NIS, said on Monday it had "specific intelligence" that North Korean forces in Russia had suffered casualties but it did not comment on a media report that 500 North Koreans had been killed in a Ukrainian attack with British missiles.
The U.S. and South Korea have said that North Korean troops had been fighting against Ukrainian forces in Kursk. The U.S. has estimated more than 10,000 North Korean soldiers had been sent to Kursk and they had begun combat operations alongside Russian forces.
Alright so, the extremely unbiased South Korean spies have a very special super secret proof that North Koreans are at the frontline in the Ukraine war... but it's a super secret proof, so they wouldn't show us, we just have to take them at their word. TBF "intelligence" isn't even proof, it could be anything like hearsay from a double agent or a blurry satellite image.
Great. Interesting what lies behind the word "proven".
And now from Newsweek:
North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia have reportedly accessed the unrestricted internet for the first time, with many using this newfound freedom to view pornography, according to Financial Times journalist Gideon Rachman.
"A usually reliable source tells me that the North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia have never had unfettered access to the internet before. As a result, they are gorging on pornography." Rachman posted on his X account.
What's amazing that they still identify as pragmatist realists, even though their strategy utterly failed.
Wouldn't a true pragmatist realist throw Biden/Harris/the DNC elite under the bus after such a big L? Not these bootlickers.
nah, he's just paper tiger, we can slap him around
there are actual people in power who believe these statements simultaneously. wtf. even by the standards of Western statesmen this is the worst generation
Why would the Russian government want to remove the current Ukrainian leadership? They're completely predictable.
Like the Kursk incursion?
With removed, Ukrainian oligarchs and army brass would have to fight in the open for the steering wheel.
Zelenskyyy was perfect for propaganda purposes, truly a gift that the Ukrainian Jon Stewart was the president at the start of the war and not a ghoulish oligarch like Poroshenko
Though I don't think Russians need to do anything else than what they've been doing to win this war and force the West to the table
Wait a minute it's just Radio Free Asia? Did they purposefully use a different site, because people are catching onto the fact that RFA and RFE are just CIA propaganda rags?
removed, Ukrainian oligarchs and army brass would have to fight in the open for the steering wheel.
The liberal candidate has written an incredibly obsequious letter to none other than Donald Trump
It is concentrated cringe ("CC Elon Musk"):
Imagine an EU leader writing a similar letter to Xi or Putin, it would be the scandal of the month