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Obama having a third term wouldn’t have hindered the orange monkey to come to power eventually.
You absolutely have no way of knowing that, nor does anyone else.
Anyway, FDR was elected four times,fairly popular, many consider him one of the greatest presidents. Democracy should mean being able to kick someone out, I don’t see why it can’t also mean keeping someone in, if the voters (rightly or wrongly) prefer so.
The Kashmiris say hi.
You’re probably right. The problems lie elsewhere, not in the length of a presidency. 
Edit: but it needs someone who is immune to the perversion of power and remains committed to general welfare, not to his or her own. They are very rare as we see. FDR is more than seventy years ago.
Any other democratic country.
A leader losing the elections and refusing to give up the seat in India will have been immediately arrested. There’s no ifs and buts about that. Arrest him. Lodge all the cases there are against him and use a heavy hand with his supporters. He’ll be at the whims of the government and the justice system not the sham that is the US Supreme court.
And I use the term democratic pretty loosely. Even allowing for that loose definition , the US electoral system and democratic system is a sham.
It looks like the Moldovans have had a look at Ukraine and decided that Putin can go fuck himself.
With a majority of 50.03% of the vote. A clear result.
Well, against 25% or so for the other side of the question, to be fair. In a genuine multiparty system, getting an absolute majority is remarkable.
I have followed this election and the Russian interferance and sabotage closely and I find the most remarkable thing to be that PAS got (from my memory) over 25% of the votes in Transnistria.
This indicates something highly interesting and remarkable. A major loss of confidence and loyalty to Russia.
As a personal anecdote, I have 2 very good Moldovan friends. When I got to know them a decade ago as foreign students in Norway, they were Russians from Moldova (they are not from Transnistria but Moldova proper). Today they are Moldovans. The change is language and self identification, I have found their journey quite remarkable. Today, they just identify as Moldovans with Russian ethnicity.
The same has of course happened in Ukraine to an even greater degree. In Kharkiv for instance, almost everyone speaks Russian and not Ukrainian but no longer identify as Russian (meanwhile, American social media trolls who parrot Kremlin talk points would tell you that the Russian language is illegal in Ukraine).
Yes, it wasn’t irony. I really meant it, it’s a clear result.
This was with votes not all counted. I don’t want to do an extensive search and was unable to find it a rapid google search (numbers from transnistria)
https://x.com/nik0p0l5/status/1972393203031753058
2826, and 1483, are these voter numbers? So few?
There was only one voting booth set up in Transnistria for those who wanted to vote.
I don’t know how much you know about Transnistria. It is a Soviet left over from the break up of the Soviet Union. The only reason why it exists is that a Soviet ammunition depot is located there and a Soviet general and his army found themselves stranded there at dissolution of the Soviet Union. Then he recieved orders from Moscow and the rest is history.
Like Abkhazia, South Ossetia as well as the newer Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic; this is how Rusia manages geopolitics with frozen conflicts .
So in essence, they set up Mickey Mouse banana republic to retain this ammuniton depot (considered the largest Soviet Munitoon depot in eastern Europe, though few knows what it contains now at this stage since Transnistria is still run by a secretive Soviet entity) and set the stages for reunification of Moldova into the Russian Federation (empire) at a later stage. This is normal Russian Modus Operandi.
https://x.com/M0nstas/status/1972628709552353577
It’s a mandate but Zelensky and general Syrsky would have to be onboard.
I don’t think it will happen through force of arms, but it’s posibillity much discussed because Russia would find defending it quite impossible. It would have to be a primarily Ukrainian campaign of course, where they give the territories they take to Moldova. But believe you me, this has been discussed now for years both in Ukraine, Moldova and elsewhere. I hope it happens, but it would be very daring and contain political risks, so I have my doubts.
But if Ukraine can have a little (foolish) campaign in Kursk, why the hell not Transnistria, which is far less well defended. But it would require immense bravery from the Moldovan government and put them in a very difficult position if it didn’t go to plan.
Transnistra’s army today consists of 1500 Russian garrison troops and 5000 Transnistran troops as well as around 18 000 reserves; all badly trained.
It’s not Gaza, Syria, or any other war-torn country.
It’s in a small town in south-eastern Bangladesh (Chittagong Hill Tracts) where the army (yeap, the Army) is trying to quell an unrest after the rape of an indigenous girl.
Have there been arrests made ?
Arrest who???
Depending on who is reporting, 3-7 people are killed in two days of violence.
