1/2/2024 0 Comments May 9th victory day![]() My Romanian sucks, but I know enough to freak out a native Romanian-speaker in a place where they think no one even knows there is such a language.Balkan and Eastern European countries again showed on Wednesday that they are divided over whether to commemorate May 9 as the day on which Nazi Germany surrendered in World War II, or to observe the European Union’s annual Europe Day celebration. Nice people, mostly, although I guess it automatically elicits a smile when I ask, „Russian-speaking or Romanian-speaking?“ and then speak to them in the language native to them. I run into them all the time as summer menial job holders on Cape Cod. One of Moldova‘s chief exports these days is cheap, educated, unemployed young people. ![]() ![]() All Putin has to lose at this point is a lot of young Russians, which Russian rulers have deemed expendable for centuries. Even if we wanted to help Moldova, we‘d have to plow through Russian-occupied territory to get there. It is not the former „breadbasket of the Soviet Union.“ It also has the unfortunate fate to be strategically located to facilitate an attempted Russian grab for the Ukrainian Black Sea coast. Moldova is just a sitting duck with no powerful friends, and a member of no alliance. Bush‘s ambassador may have left a confusing message as well, i.e., that we didn‘t care. Saddam thought we were bluffing with Kuwait. Attacking NATO territory without an overwhelming retaliation would be the end of NATO, and everyone knows it. Invading the Baltics would be like Saddam invading Kuwait. The war in Ukraine continues on a slow simmer, because war against an external enemy keeps the russian people from asking questions about domestic corruption. Russia will continue to lament how the West invaded peace-loving Russia and how western fascism turned the Ukrainians against their russian brothers. Why isolate Russia? So he and his oligarch-buddies can continue ruling Russia as their personal fiefdom, without pesky western ideas like democratic elections and free press. Putin's goal is to isolate Russia from the rest of the world, with domestic warmongering propaganda how the West is invading Russia. Russia continues dropping hints about invading Moldova, Georgia and the Baltics, just to keep everyone on edge. With this fresh cannon-fodder, Russia continues to try bleeding Ukraine out. With this excuse, Putin issues a declaration of war against Ukraine and orders a general mobilization.Īlso, Russia has sharp words for the West, who is so russophobic that they cannot even bring themselves to admit that Russia has done a good deed in Ukraine. The fighting in Ukraine continues, except Russia is now framing it as an UKRAINIAN invasion on RUSSIAN soil. THE WHOLE WORLD owes gratitude to Russia for defeating the Nazis a second time.Īlso, Donbas, Luhansk and southern Ukraine have asked to join Russia and Russia has accepted. On May 9th, Putin declares that the "special military operation" has been successful, as the military power of the ukrainian Nazis has been sufficiently stunted, despite the best efforts of the malicious West to sabotage this noble and heroic mission. On May 9th, Russia celebrates the victory of WWII.
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