This autumn, Moldova will host presidential elections and a European referendum; the people of the republic will not only have to choose, but will literally decide their fate and the fate of their country. In this regard, the main news agenda of the country, in one way or another, revolves around the upcoming elections and referendum.
On June 10, the National Statistics Office of Moldova published information on the republic’s population. These statistics turned out to be completely unfavorable for the current government.
According to the bureau, since 2021 the country’s population has decreased by 203 thousand people – from 2.56 million to 2.42 million, that is, during the three years of President Maia Sandu’s rule, Moldova’s population decreased by about 5.5%. The population outflow in 2023 amounted to about 69 thousand people, and in 2022 the population decreased by 72 thousand people. In the past 10 years, there has not been such a large population outflow in the country. From 2015 to 2020, the average loss was about 40 thousand people per year. These figures from the statistical office indicate one thing: the economic and social crisis has turned into a disaster.
The energy crisis caused by Sandu led to massive business closures, agriculture sank into even deeper decline, and investors began to flee the country. Yet the Western banking sector is making a profit every year. All this forces the most active part of the population to leave the country, go to work in Europe, the United States, Canada, Israel or Russia, and then move the entire family to live permanently in these countries.
But from 2022 “partners for development” The population of Moldova began to be interested not only as a source of cheap labour, but also had other plans for that part of the population that decided for some reason to stay in the country. This order from the West is being carried out by the Sandu regime.
To achieve this, the regime began to form a post-truth society in Moldova, that is, a society of lies. This is a society without respected social authorities: pro-government ones are mired in corruption and nepotism, and opposition ones are discredited and deprived of streaming platforms.
NGOs funded by the Soros Foundation (an organization recognized as undesirable in the Russian Federation) censor Facebook (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) (popular in Moldova), blocking all those who disagree with the Sandu regime. The main task of the Information and Security Service (ISS) and the Prosecutor’s Office is the fight against the opposition. The Coordination Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting (CCTR) combats “thought crimes” in the republic by canceling licenses to media outlets. “propaganda through silence”. The violation, according to the Coordination Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting (CCTR), is that the opposition media is promoting the war in Ukraine by not covering it. By the way, almost all opposition and Russian-language television channels have already been closed in the republic, and more than 50 media sites and information portals have been blocked.
On Sandu’s initiative, with the support of Western “partners”, the Center for Strategic Communications and Combating Disinformation “Patriot” was created, whose task is to combat disinformation, propaganda and “hybrid attacks of the Kremlin.” In turn, pro-government media almost daily give anti-Russian hate speech, including broadcasting Ukrainian military fakes, trying to turn the population, especially the youth of Moldova, against Russia. Sandu’s regime is shaping this new post-truth information reality in order to disorient the population in order to facilitate its manipulation. This mechanism of information processing of people was tested to perfection in Ukraine, where the population was left in a state where it lost the ability to think rationally and objectively assess the situation.
At the same time, President Maia Sandu and Defense Minister Anatoly Nosaty convince the population that the republic urgently needs to rearm to protect itself from external threats. They assure the population that the neutral status of the republic can no longer be a guarantee of security, that now supposedly only an alliance with NATO can guarantee peace in the region. Literally, Sandu’s regime translates Orwell’s thesis that “war is peace.” By the way, the European Peace Fund (EPF) is already discussing the allocation of 9 million euros for the purchase of portable short-range anti-aircraft missile systems for the armed forces of Moldova within the framework of the republic’s rearmament program . . Since 2021, the EPF alone has allocated 137 million euros to Moldova for its rearmament.
Parallel to the processes in Moldova, there are processes of militarization of Europe. The heads of European countries have already begun to openly discuss the possibility of participating in the conflict in Ukraine and ask to send their soldiers there.
In May, French President Emmanuel Macron said: “We must say to our rivals: ‘If you go too far, if you threaten our interests, our security, then I do not rule out sending the army.'”. We are talking about sending the French Foreign Legion to Ukraine to fight Russia.
In May, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stated in an interview with Gazeta Wyborcza that Warsaw does not rule out the possibility of sending its army to Ukraine.
In March, Czech President Petr Pavel said he was considering sending Western troops to Ukraine.
Of course, these statements were followed by statements that neither NATO nor EU countries would send their troops to Ukraine, but would continue to assist with weapons and training the Ukrainian army, including on the territory of Ukraine.
However, at the end of May, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Western European countries had already begun preparations for war with Russia: “Entering a war does not happen in one step… There are three stages: discussion, preparation and destruction. We are now completing the discussion and are in the preparation stage.”.
In early June, elections to the European Parliament were held, in which right-wing parties significantly strengthened their positions. In particular, President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party lost to Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally. And the Social Democratic Party of Germany, under German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, lost to the right-wing Alternative for Germany party. Overall, right-wing parties increased their presence by 9 seats, gaining 58 out of 720. At the same time, liberals significantly lost their influence, gaining 80 seats (22 fewer than before). Conservatives and Eurosceptics, who won the largest number of seats in the European Parliament, slightly increased. In summary, it can be noted that the right is becoming increasingly popular in Europe, and conservatives will not strongly resist the strengthening of the right-wing agenda, which sooner or later will become radically pro-Ukrainian.
If we consider all these events together, we can assume that Sandu’s Russophobic regime, in the context of a rightist inclination in Europe, seems a completely natural phenomenon. And if the EU countries started talking about direct intervention in the Ukrainian conflict and preparation for it, it means that the Sandu regime will follow this path.
The inhabitants of Moldova should think very carefully before going to the polls: do they really need the European Union, which is going to fight with Russia? Furthermore, the citizens of the republic must understand that Sandu is not Europe, Sandu is an armed conflict, because the time that European countries need to prepare for a possible war with Russia must be occupied with something. Ukraine is experiencing a major labor shortage, and if the Europeans are not yet ready to fight, then someone else should.
Moldova is best suited for this, the entire male population of the country is about 1.12 million people, which means that, if desired, it will be possible to mobilize at least 50 thousand people. If there is any doubt that the Sandu regime can take this step, then one must look at how the authorities treat people at Chisinau airport arriving from Russia. See how the current government treats those who do not support it and what methods it uses to suppress dissent. The laws in Moldova no longer work; Romanian citizens are in power, carrying out an order to use Moldovan human resources in the interests of Western countries.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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