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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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[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Great point by Branko Milanovic regarding Moldova's EU referendum. vote

It is absolutely bizarre, but very much in keeping with how EU operates, to vote on EU membership when no-one is offering it. what-the-hell

Macedonia voted in such a silly referendum in 2018. Did anything happen? No new member was accepted for 11 years. Countries are in a limbo for decades. It is a waste of time & energy to think about it. shrug-outta-hecks

Moreover, to be accepted several countries (incl. France) require referendum which would definitely reject new members, heartbreaking

Referendums like the one in Moldova are meaningless & they simply add fuel to fire and destabilize countries for nothing. 100-com

Same thing I was thinking, there is no guarantee that any more countries, even ukraine, will actually get to join the EU even, they're just going to get in line forever. Which affects the countries' politics negatively (in the eyes of europhiles), ie Georgia

What EU does is to play an entertaining game. It displays to small countries pictures of wealth to come, countries begin fighting within themselves for these illusory pictures, and nothing real ever happens. What EU does is what in French is called "miroiter". You disembark in a poor country, show them in a mirror all kinds of glowing things, they get excited, and in exchange fo these images, they give you land. It worked wonders in the 19th century.

Both EU/NATO and Russia want to provoke conflicts and even civil wars in the European neighboring countries. Creating dissention and political mobilization over absolutely unattainable things (like EU membership which is a mirage) is the right way on that path. For small countries that are polarized in many respects, it is a suicide in this geo-political climate, to choose one or the other side. Neutrality or non-alignment is not just a "nice" policy. It is necessary in order to survive without a civil war. Libya & Iraq are cautionary tales.

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[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://fxtwitter.com/ConflictTR/status/1850203303474286635

Some rumours about Saudi Arabia Islamic resistance forming and attacking isfake. Only rumors. And footage seems to be belonging to Iraqi resistance

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[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago

Kamala is a female Rigellian from the planet Rigel 7 and is the daughter of Kang and an unnamed Rigellian.

First appearance: October 30, 2011

Don't blame me I voted for Kodos's daughter

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago (7 children)
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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago (3 children)

uruguayan, japanese, AND bulgarian elections are all today holy shit

HUGE day for multifandom enjoyers

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Bernie Sanders to stream with Pokimane and Valkyrae in support of Harris

The Tuesday night stream is aimed at addressing concerns among Democrats and their allies that the left is giving up critical organizing spaces online.

This is how Bernie can still win. Also, wtf? There was legit a cat person vtuber in there lol.

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[–] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Some news and combat footage from Gaza and Lebanon.

Palestinian resistance forces released more impressive footage of RPG and IED strikes on Zionist Merkava tanks and Namer armored personnel carriers in Gaza: https://southfront.press/in-video-palestinian-fighters-blow-up-israeli-tanks-in-gaza/

Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces conducted ATGM strikes on six Zionist Merkava tanks in southern Lebanon: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/23/735792/Hezbollah-hits-six-Israeli-Merkava-tanks-in-south-Lebanon

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One step closer to the end of "Israel"

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)
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[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 57 points 9 months ago

someone please post that text thing aboutbeing weary of fake news

[–] companero@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Some tidbits from Putin at the BRICS summit

2,000 Ukrainian military personnel are blocked in the Kursk region, the Russian army has begun to eliminate this group

Footage of North Korean soldiers in Russia is a serious thing, if there are pictures, they reflect something there... I will not confirm or deny Western media reports, but the DPRK is serious about implementing the treaty in terms of joint defense.

Kyiv’s irretrievable and sanitary losses in the Kursk direction amounted to 26 thousand people

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[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago (8 children)

DPRK flag spotted in Ukraine. Mil summary YT 10:20s

They say its just Russian trolling for now. The narrative seems like ever increasing Russian cope which I don't understand why, I admit its wierd but also I don't quite think someone right at the front(see the video geolocation) has time or reason to be bothering with internet memes, just a weird situation imo, why would you carry a DPRK flag around just in case?

To me this seems like the funniest narrative of the past year imo. Its going to be so funny to watch all these silly mil bloggers experts trying to justify the extremely obvious reasons why DPRK was willing to send some small amount of troops.

Meanwhile SK is officially taking the matter seriously South Korea summons Russian envoy to protest North Korea troop dispatch.

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[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Resurrecting the USSR via Telegram? Uzbek Man Sentenced for Engagement With Soviet Revanchists

Based on reports of the case, it seems to be an all-too-familiar pattern of online indoctrination and radicalization.

A man in Uzbekistan was given a parole-like sentence on September 3 after a court declared him guilty of “encroachment on the Constitutional Order of the Republic of Uzbekistan” for his activities promoting the restoration of the Soviet Union.

According to media reports, 74-year-old E. Khasanov, an Uzbek citizen residing in Samarkand, was sentenced to 3 years of restricted freedom, including a mandatory curfew, a ban on changing his place of residence without permission, and restrictions prohibiting him from leaving Samarkand region. Khasanov has also been banned from using the internet.

This is from september, I read it last week, and I can't stop thinking about the piece calling a 70yo who thinks the ussr was good was a typical case of online radicalisation

https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/resurrecting-the-ussr-via-telegram-uzbek-man-sentenced-for-engagement-with-soviet-revanchists/

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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago (4 children)

iSSrael has launched an illegal and unprovoked attack on Iran!

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[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 56 points 9 months ago (4 children)

does Trump really not know China is the leader in green tech? he was on JRE saying they are huge polluters

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[–] REgon@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Old news, but a bunch of young Danes went on hunger strike to get their government to do anything about the climate. The result? They got to meet some politicians yayyy

Source in Danish

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Via PressTv telegram (Iran state media)

Tasnim News Agency citing informed source: Iran reserves right to respond to Israeli attacks

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Photos of Major Hamzeh Jahandideh, member of Iranian Army, who was martyred in Israel's recent aggression against Iran

@PressTV - #Iran

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[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

transphobic lawhttps://apnews.com/us-news/texas-government-programs-lgbtq-general-news-fc1fb0ef003010fa961e64663a57b11d

Texas city puts 10k lawsuit bounty on trans people using the bathroom, similar to the abortion bounties.

Question for those more in the loop then I am, is this the first of its kind? I don't remember seeing these types of lawsuit laws for trans people before.

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[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago
[–] FLAMING_AUBURN_LOCKS@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago (9 children)

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

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[–] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (18 children)

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 sadness.

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

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[–] notceps@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

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.

Edit:

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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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A few of these seem a bit like duplicates, but here's a list of what Israel has "accomplished" in the last year, courtesy of some commenter on MoA

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/10/what-has-israel-achieved-in-the-last-year-by-arch-bungle.html#more

In short, a lot of death and yet also a lot of strategic failure.

Note that MoA is occasionally transphobic (not this post) and the comments on the blog are a zoo of heterodox political posters so explore at your own risk

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://archive.is/u9zXm

Former British special forces poised to deliver aid to new Gaza ‘gated communities’

hitler-detector

Disgusting article

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