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The pro-Russian Călin Georgescu, the Kremlin’s Manchurian candidate in Romania’s 2024 presidential election, was taken into custody this morning. He is accused of fraud and of forming an organized criminal group that received more than €1 million from various Russian citizens.
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Yesterday, a Romanian shepherd stumbled upon a Russian drone carrying an explosive payload that crashed into a field in Romania. This being the first drone he ever saw, the man did the sensible thing and started pulling random wires out of it until he defused it himself.
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Less than an hour ago, Romanian F-16s destroyed an unidentified maritime drone less than 1 km from the Neptun Deep platform. This is Romania’s largest natural gas extraction project, expected to turn the country into EU's largest gas producer once production begins in 2027.
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This morning, a merchant vessel was hit and sank in Romania’s exclusive economic zone, roughly 15 nautical miles off the Romanian coast by what appears to be a new type of Russian drone. The crew members, eight Ukrainians and four Azerbaijanis, were rescued by the Romanian Navy.
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With the midterms approaching, I’ve decided to put together a sort of voting guide outling a few core principles, just to make sure America doesn’t miss this unique opportunity to become the first society in human history to achieve pure, and probably permanent, idiocracy.🧵
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OTD 35 years ago, Ceaușescu delivered what would become his final speech, addressing 100k people forcibly gathered there so he could stage a facade of popular support for his regime. In one of the most iconic moments of modern history, he will lose control of the crowd.🧵
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Not even two months since he last wanted to annex Danish territory and claimed European soldiers “stayed a little back” while dying in America’s last two wars, Donald Trump now asks Europeans to come fight to reopen the strait his war, the one he claims he won, has closed.
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"I'm proudly telling you that we're going to try and have no windmills built in the United States. [...] They're unsightly. They make a lot of noise." We are watching live a nation of 350 million led by a visibly insane man commit collective suicide for no discernible reason.
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Reporter: "As Trump's popularity rises around the world, especially in regions where he's invested so much effort in promoting peace and ending wars, you think we might be watching the emergence of a global MAGA movement?" This is all that's left of journalism in Trump's US.
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With less than 24 hours left until Hungarians head to the polls, I figured it is a good moment to take one final look at what Viktor Orbán has achieved in his 16 years of uninterrupted, near absolute reign in Hungary, by comparing Hungary’s performance with that of Romania.🧵
Daractenus565,064 次观看 • 5 个月前