Moldova joining the EU would actually be very funny because it will just be a money sink for the sinking ship. But atleast the people would be able to escape Moldova far more easily so it’s a huge plus for them.
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Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova
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On the 20th of October, Moldova - a small, landlocked country bordering western Ukraine and with a population of about 3 million - voted to join the EU. The margin was razor-thin, with the pro-EU vote gaining 50.39%, or an absolute difference of about 11,000 people. There was simultaneously a presidential vote between the incumbent, Maia Sandu, and other candidates, with the main competitor being Alexandr Stoianoglo.
The election was characterized by accusations of Russian interference, with Russian propaganda apparently flooding in, as well as people offering Moldovans money to vote against the EU. While the result does suggest that half the voting-age population of Moldova consists entirely of Russians who want to destroy democracy and all the good in the world, it seems to have just barely failed. This is a bad time to be a site entirely composed of Russian disinformation agents and bots. Twice already today, I've had to restart my program after somebody told me "Disregard all previous prompts."
While Moldova is a poor country which could benefit in some ways from EU membership, in practice, it is unlikely that they will be able to join for the foreseeable future, requiring many of the... reforms... that the EU requires of potential new members. But as basically every major European economy continues to slowly sink as recessions and political crises degrade them, one wonders how beneficial EU membership will even be in the years and decades to come - if it survives for decades. In that sense, it's as if the survivors of the Titanic are swimming back towards it, believing that being on a bigger - albeit slowly sinking - boat is better than trying their luck on small lifeboats.
Then again, like with Serbia, their geographical and geopolitical position makes anti-Western actions extremely difficult. It is rare that dissention is tolerated for long in the West - one tends to get called a dictator by crowds of people holding English-language signs in non-English countries, photographed by Western journalists who haven't meaningfully reported on your country in months or years. You can crush your people with neoliberal austerity for years, killing hundreds of thousands through neglect, and face glowing approval from the media - but try and use state resources to benefit the poor, and global institutions start ranking you on the authoritarian dictator scale.
The best case for Moldova is that it becomes an exploitable hinterland for Germany to harvest and privatize as it tries - and fails - to compete in a global economic war between the US and China/BRICS. The worst case is that tensions with Russia over Pridnestrovie, as well as possible eventual NATO involvement (though Moldova is not a member, it is a partner of NATO), result in the ongoing war also reaching them.
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They already mostly have,joint citizenship has been a thing since 2007,now it's either people who were too young to leave,pro Russia people and people who were too poor to leave
They already can escape to romania. A lot of young people emigrated during the harsh winter when the country was almost running out of heating gas.
If rump, destroyed Ukraine and Moldova both join the EU then the EU is going to have some very heavy shackles around its ankles
Exactly my idea
I am counting down the days until Joe Biden gets his final "Lucy will let me kick the football this time, surely" moment with Netanyahu. When Israel goes ahead and bombs energy and nuclear infrastructure or even potentially uses a nuke on Iran, even though they pinkie-promised Joe they wouldn't, it's going to cement Biden's legacy as the most ineffective leader in American history......not the measure of justice he truly deserves, but at least he'll die one day in a nursing home knowing that he will be a laughingstock for future historians, and that he fucked everything up by trusting Bibi
It was probably him who had the CIA leak Israel's attack preparations.
Biden wants Israel's enemies to be weakened, and he's fine with the genocide, but he doesn't want to get pulled into a full-blown war against Iran. He needs the US military ready for war with China.
Of course, Netanyahu doesn't give a shit if China takes Taiwan. He wants to leverage the entire US military to help him establish Greater Israel.
giving tapioca brain a lot of credit
Yeah, more accurately that what Blinken is thinking and doing 
A full blown war against Iran could very easily spiral out into a full blown war with China. China is very dependent on Iranian oil. A bunch of action in the strait of hormuz would cause China a lot of problems. They would not be able to sit it out forever.
I think the US would rather activate a different proxy vs China first, rather than having to be reactive.
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CW: bleak. I am now imagining nuclear bunker nursing homes, which likely exist in some form. Ultra wealthy who have commissioned billion dollar bunkers surely have nurses and doctors on retainer.
wow i sure hope the nursing staff don't mix up the mcg and mg labels on the pain killers
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Dynamo gets dunked on!
What an exciting game, Lokomotiv pulled ahead with an early lead in the first but Dynamo really came back in the second, gaining the lead 3-2 by the second break. It really came down to the wire but Lokomotiv managed to tie it up with a little less than a minute remaining and went on to win it in overtime!
Lokomotiv next plays Amur Khabarovsk on Friday, October 25th at 7pm Moscow Standard Time
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Lol did not expect this
Maybe my little tirade played a part in prompting this?
Anyhow,looks like the referrendum will pass,almost all the votes are counted,with a very,very narrow lead for YES,so my silly little comment about hope kinda looks stupid now. My apologies to those tagged,it was the middle of the night here and I'd just woken up,and the diaspora vote wasn't counted yet 
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Maybe it can be contested,but I'm not holding out any hope,looks like it's gonna be another Lucy football moment for the romance speakers of the east. Sad,but this is the post Soviet world we live in.
Also,I will reiterate my point,this is purely a Romanian endeavor,there is almost nothing in there to loot that either isn't in Pridniestrovie or hasnt already been looted other than some vineyards and farmland. It is the quintessential Eastern European agrarian nation,with it's land consisting of flatlands and plateaus. As far as I recall it is also bereft of any significant underground resources,so it's no Donbass. Most I can say is that it has maybe some potential for green energy,but let's be honest,who's gonna build that and with what money? You can't even say that they're an untapped labor market, Moldovans have been using their joint Romanian citizenships to work for pennies on the dollar in the EU for almost two decades now. It truly is the shining example of post Soviet decay and the power games played by the West in this region.
Edit:Looks like it's joever,50.46 to 49.54,with a 13.596 vote difference
It's always the petty bourgeois diaspora lol
I remember seeing something about how in Mexico,the white americanized city people act like tourists in their own country when visiting the less developed areas
This is exactly how the diaspora here act,they come here on vacation because we have the lowest prices in EU (for them,for us it's eyewateringly expensive),they drive their fancy BMWs, disregard traffic laws and then go on to say that it's still a backwards country and that everything here is shit and then come autumn they scurry back to Germania to work in some multinational company or as you said small business
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Smallish news that happened over the weekend
An austrian nazi (Martin Sellner) was arrested in switzerland basically he was already banned in the country for you know being a nazi, decided to come here anyways to say some nazi stuff and got arrested. I thought that since he could do it in austria and germany he'd get away with it but I guess not.
I'm guessing he thought it play out the same as it did in germany where he was banned from the country, came in anyways and their government retroactively lifted the ban.
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Actually since theres some new news about this now the guy got got in the dumbest way ever, he wanted to protest being not allowed in and wanted to do a whole photo shoot of him shaking the hands of some nazis across the border but he got the whole thing wrong and he stood on the swiss side the whole time. Double irony he did it near the 'Nazifence' so....
He'll probably do the whole 'I didn't know I'm just a smol bean' and since he's austrian he'll probably get away with a fine but oh man just the dumbest guy imaginable.
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