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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:57:13 +0000
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Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:41:46 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
> 
> >Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2/14/2025 1:26 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> >> > A candidate nobody had ever heard of, who wanted to turn the whole
> >> > country over to Putin, suddenly appeared at the last minute and won the
> >> > election by an incredibly large majority.  Doesn't that sound suspicious
> >> > to you -  and worth putting the result on hold while the circumstances
> >> > were checked?
> >> 
> >> But, isn't that the norm for the Russian mindset? 
> >
> >These elections were in Romania, which is a European country on the
> >borders of Russia and is terrified that they will be in Putin's sights
> >after Ukraine.  The official line is that there was evidence of
> >'State-sponsored interference' in the elections, but it is obvious which
> >state is the most likely one.
> 
> Yeah, the usual bogie-man (we're supposed to automatically assume).
> The bald fact is that there is not a single Western democracy you
> could not claim has been unduly influenced by Russia: not one.

We're not talking about a few votes here and there, we are talking about
an unheard-of swing towards a virtually-unknown pro-Putin extremist
candidate in a country which has every reason to hate Putin.  This isn't
subtle influence, it is blatant interference and that is what the
Constitutional Court concluded after weighing up the evidence.


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